There Was Very Little Art In My

Object In/ And Space - The First Impulse May Be To Give The Object - A Position - To Place The Object. (the Object Had A Position To Begin With.) Next - To Change The Position Of The Object. - Rauschenberg's Early Sculptures - A Board With Some Rocks On It. The Rocks Can Be Anywhere On The Board. - Cage's Japanese Rock Garden - The Rocks Can Be Anywhere (within The Garden).

I'm Especially Interested In The Music Of John Cage... I Would Like To Do Some Experimenting With The Relationship Between His Freeform Sound And Free-form Art.

Art As A Fantasy Has Been One Of My Earliest Experiences. I Suppose A Lot Of My Childhood Was A Fantasy That Involved Getting Away From Things I Didn't Like. Fortunately It Had Some Relationship To Reality So That Later I Was Able To, To Some Extent, Act As I Imagined I Might.

Marcel Duchamp, One Of This Century's Pioneers, Moved His Work Through The Retinal Boundaries Which Had Been Established With Impressionism Into A Field Where Language, Thought And Vision Act Upon One Another. There It Changed Form Through A Complex Interplay Of New Mental And Physical Materials, Heralding Many Of The Technical, Mental And Visual Details To Be Found In More Recent Art... He Declared That He Wanted To Kill Art ("for Myself") But His Persistent Attempts To Destroy Frames Of Reference Altered Our Thinking, Established New Units Of Thought, A "new Thought For That Object."

I’m Interested In Things Which Suggest The World Rather Than Express The Personality... The Most Conventional Thing, The Most Ordinary - It Seems To Me That Those Things Can Be Dealt With Without Having To Judge Them; They Seem To Me To Exist As Clear Facts, Not Involving Aesthetic Hierarchy.