taken from...

by Lawrence Weiner, 1980
Vinyl letters
From the accompanying plaque:
"In 1968 Lawrence Weiner decided that the physical realization of his ideas
was not a necessary condition of his art. A linguistic construction -- presented
as a title in the form of a simple descriptive phrase on the wall -- seemed to the
artist to be less vulnerable to change over time than an actual sculpture. This
work, which describes a physical act of displacement as a metaphor for
representation, and its title are thus one and the same."
(source: mjthor at flickr)