Richard Serra ​is a sculptor known for working with large-scale assemblies of sheet metal.

Serra
was involved in the ​Process Art Movement​. One of his significant early works was a text drawing
of a list of verbs. Serra’s ​Verb List​ ​ serves as a kind of manifesto for his work. The work is a list
of the infinitives of 84 verbs (e.g. ​to roll, to crease, to fold, etc.) ​and 24 possible contexts (​of
gravity, of entropy, of nature, etc.)​. Serra described the list as a series of “actions to relate to
oneself, material, place, and process,” and employed it as a kind of guide for his subsequent
practice in multiple media.

​ Here is the text of the list of verbs that​ Richard Serra​ included in his Verb List.

to roll to support to join

to crease to hook to match
to fold to suspend to laminate
to store to spread to bond
to bend to hang to hinge
to shorten to collect to mark
to twist of tension to expand
to dapple of gravity to dilute
to crumple of entropy to light
to shave of nature to modulate
to tear of grouping to distill
to chip of layering of waves
to split of felting of electromagnetic
to cut to grasp of inertia
to sever to tighten of ionization
to drop to bundle of polarization
to remove to heap of refraction
to simplify to gather of tides
to differ to scatter of reflection
to disarrange to arrange of equilibrium
to open to repair of symmetry
to mix to discard of friction
to splash to pair to stretch
to knot to distribute to bounce
to spill to surfeit to erase
to droop to compliment to spray
to flow to enclose to systematize
to curve to surround to refer
to lift to encircle to force
to inlay to hole of mapping
to impress to cover of location
to fire to wrap of context
to flood to dig of time
to smear to tie of carbonization
to rotate to bind to continue
to swirl to weave