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I would like to go along. So I said "Fine. I'll show my portfolio to Jock Truman." My friend had errands. I told her to circle the block afterwards because there's no parking on 57th Street. I would meet her downstairs and I told her not to worry because "he's not going to like my work anyhow." Well she circled the block three times because as soon as I walked into the gallery he said he loved what I showed him. I remember looking at my watch and saying, 'You what?" He said, "You just missed my new talent show." And I was thinking I have to get out of her because we have to get back to New Jersey. Then Jock asked if I could get some of my work in on Saturday. Well I couldn't come back on Saturday but a friend brought them over. The next thing I know he had typed my name into the already-printed announcements. Now the day of hte opening a juror told the judge that one of us had been included in a New York show and he recessed the court until the next morning.
EF: How did you become involved with shacks?
BB: Basically because I like houses. When I was growing up there was a young black woman in my hometown who wanted to be an architect. I was so impressed with her. When I first started shacks my ideas were really about architecture. There are so many different kinds of shacks and I'm basically interested in structure. I was living here in Athens making stone pieces, which are sculptures as far as I'm concerned. At some point I had to realize for me the structure was related to people who built it. I would look at shacks and the ones that attracted me always had something a little different or odd about them. This evolved into my having to deal with [the fact that] I'm making portraits of a family or person which may recall individuals or families I had met, and I would sometimes add traits from other

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