Sort of underway by then He was sort of underway by then...he had this whole ritual for showing the work to people – you had to sit in a chair that was positioned what he felt was exactly the right distance from the painting. There was a certain mystique about it that worked for him. Craig Kauffman, Robert Irwin: A Conditional Art ritualmystery
Parkinson's Law Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org Hofstadter's Law worktimeproductivity