Gallery of 2026 Art on the Trails Exhibition

Bob Kephart

metal, stone, concrete

$500 Inquiries: artonthetrails@gmail.com

This work of kinetic drawing instruments that respond directly to environmental forces. Suspended rods, flexible arms, and ground-contacting elements continuously strike, drag, erase, and re-inscribe marks across stone, sand, and soil. The work rejects the idea of time as a preserved record. Instead, it treats time as a continuous mechanical and environmental act. Wind functions as a temporal agent: Each gust produces a different inion event. Marks accumulate only to be partially erased by subsequent motion, weather, or reset cycles. The landscape is therefore not a container of time but an instrument through which time is continuously performed.