RICHARD LONG: POCKET GUIDE by WILLIAM MALPAS The central fact and act of Richard Long"s art is walking. His work is founded on the art of walking, the act of walking, the actuality of walking, and on walking as art, as act, as experience. His walks become "artwalks", artwalks which become artworks. ••• For Richard Long, (art)walking is (art)working. As he walks he works. Art-walking and art-working become interchangeable. "I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks - who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering", wrote Henry Thoreau. ••• Richard Long is a British land artist and sculptor who works with and in the natural world, but also with and within the highly sophisticated, artificial and humanmade world of art and culture. "I too wanted to make nature the subject of my work," Long explained of his early work, "but in new ways. I started working outside using natural materials like grass and water,...