156. The art term for what Agnes had asked me to do was
‘abstract expressionism,” also known as action painting. I looked at various
examples of this style, and then proceeded to apply the idea to my plaster
cast.
157. I did not think too much of the result, but Mrs.
Festini was so impressed with what my sidewalk square looked like with paint
slopped all over it, that she insisted I photograph it and submit it for an
annual show she always placed work in at the museum in Detroit.
158. When I photographed it however, it did not look like
sculpture at all, but only like a painting, so we agreed that I would submit it
as a painting, and meanwhile, I attached hooks on the back of the thing, so it
could be easily hung up on a wall.
159. But, I asked myself, “Why would anyone want to include
in an exhibition a completely pointless conglomeration of meaningless unrelated
ideas”. I had no idea.
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