But is there anything else, of you, or the
extensions into the world of yourself: which
youve made: which could continue to be of use,
worth, in our world (or even in other worlds,
if they can find themselves free to continue,
what has always been going on)

A potter, how did you begin? The 50s. When
your great young desire was to be yourself,

and willing to work at that, but there was no
work that could decently be done, At artschool:
valuable place, in that it was not (then !)

the university, or the insurancebusiness,

The weight on you. The possibilities:
commercialart (they had designs on you) ... not
so much that you had some Principle against it,
but that it was finally such a bore ('& thats not
what I wanted to be...") ... but for all that,
commercialart was more...honest?... than Art,
there: even though you wanted to call yourself
Artist: but it sounded like such a dirty word:
Art: certainly not something to: work at

"I want... ' We saved, out of all the junk

and noise of those ideals, an “intrinsic
conscience" ...it saved us: we were just not
free, to give, ourselves: when it was not feeling
right (& we did a lot of nothing. .. which

turned out to be very usefully destructive)

(we are constructing new --OLD-- meanings

for such words as ‘art') (want? ... what do we
need !)

See how much painting has changed since then.
The purposeful lack of originality in Pop.
The new work involved in Op, & Kinetics.

The useful imagery of Ob (scene) (!)

Back then, Pollack showed very clearly just
where to take care, and just where to take