The boots face the Pacific at Del Mar. From a distance, they have the appearance of matchsticks or standing stones. This image forms the opening salvo in Eleanor Antin’s 100 Boots, a two-year conceptual art project that began in 1971 and culminated in an exhibition at MoMA in 1973. During those two years, Antin arranged fifty pairs of black rubber boots in various formations—queuing, circling, perched in trees, marching up hills—at locations across California and, later, New York.