Daniel Brush ate the same meal every day for twenty years, surprising or absurd as it may sound. This same dedication to ritual, labor, and the passage of time was at the root of his artistic practice. Brush created each of his striped paintings with the same number of lines and painted them in the exact same time frame. One can imagine Brush hunched over Painting #2 (1973), barely moving his hand while he carefully painted line by line. The lines are records of an ordinary ritual, like the same meal every day. One line after another, the artist was still, but still moving.