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The big picture was "closepacked" as all my pictures are; that is every space is filled, like a Mondrian or a checker board. There are no "open" spaces as, say, in a Miro, or Kandinsky.

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of the first one. I got twenty-four others. Of course some were very simple, one had only two seperate [[separate]] circles. But while some overlapped, and some included one or more others, they could be hung on say four walls in such a way that no two on any wall would be too similar; although that is really just a guess. I know that it is so close to being so that I never bothered to work it out. So there would be the big key picture and twenty-four smaller ones of all sizes and shapes making up the elements of the larger one.

Now let me take another aspect of the idea. In architecture, as Kiesler knows, memory plays a big part. You see something, and then as you go through the building, you see something else that perhaps unconsciously recalls what you have seen previously. Joyce used this a great deal, and of course it is a large part of musical experience. One of the painters who used it a great deal and influenced a host of others was Poussin. Now in line with this idea, I once saw four stunning, and very large, Chinese rubbings from the four sides of a tomb, and all showing a horse and a man in different positions. I tried to get the Stones to buy them for their house in Bernardsville, so that they could put one in the entry, one on the landing between the different levels, one in the dining room (on the highest level) and one in the bed room. They would have been widely separated thoughout [[throughout]] the house and yet were so strong would reinforce one another in a total experience. The Stones didn't buy them and I couldn't afford all, but I did get one to remind me of the idea. My father-in-law now has it on the West coast. But you can see the idea of these pictures as a sort of symphony distributed throughout a house. I really believe the seperate [[separate]] pictures would be good in themselves, the parent one would be good, and they would create at least an interesting experience as a group. The smallest picture, as I am now thinking about it, would be about one by two feet, and the large one would be five by seven. The entire group might be called something like Symphony. I am going to go ahead with it since I am now able. When I begin to get something on it I shall let you know, send colour photos, or sketches, or a few of the actual parts, although I would like to keep the latter together. There is something wrong with this typewriter and it is excruciating to do this one letter at a time and each getting stuck every time. So I shall not write to anyone else about this. If you have any interest in the idea please don't discuss it with anyone except Barney and Ad, and ask them not to discuss it with anyone, as there are many more implications to the idea than those I have been able to mention with this awful instrument... The photos are quite recent. I now weight 170! Love

Tony