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A Lot of Near Mrs. 19 plywood black cut­out of W.W. in street and recording passerby reaction and often beautiful resulting compositions. Neurotic, erotic, aesthetic. Make light of the figure. Made first cut­out or wall life size "realistic" figures of cardboard in Oct. 1960. They were result of several years worrying about where the figure is or could be or would be. This is the poblem. I solved it by removing the figure from where and putting here. On the wall or in the room. She was detached from her background or removed from her "environment" and placed in a "foreign" one. In paintinga figure on/in the rec­ tangle the relationships exist between the figure and its environment.When you paint a "cut­out" flat representation of a figure rather than on a rectangle, the relationships now are internal. The "environment" of the figure now becomes separate, and out of my control. But now I think of where as well as what, ("lost" compositions, mail, females, publicity pix, etc.). No distortions of figure itself. W.W. always same con­ tour. I don't "believe" in representation. But we really look and say "it's a woman!" Passing through. Is "material" a representation too. Is it any realer. We must believe that it is. My "subject" is the same in the '59 and '60 abstract paintings and sculpture but now it is acted. Time. Impossible. La Femme qui Marche. New miss. Women are the nearest "other." The first "other." There is something inside repetition. "Partici­ pation mystique" with machine production. Hand made art­machine made art. Deta­ chiste art. Tits and arts. Frame enlargements from New York Eye and Ear Control by Michael Snow (16 mm black­and­white sound film, 34 minutes, 1964) ...

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