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families to a particular structure.
EF: When did you take your first serious step towards creating shacks?
BB: It was after I started making black walls in 1976 or '77. I was drawing them on paper about one foot squared. I had not really seen a black wall. One time when I was going to a meeting of Women in the Arts I stopped on Broome street where the meeting was held. Looking up at a building, there were my black walls. This happens to me all the time. Then I wanted to see what the wall looked like on the other side. So I laid four sheets of paper that were my black walls against each other. Clearly I wanted to make a three dimensional work, but in what medium? I didn't think of clay because I had no access to a kiln, but cement seemed a logical thing to use. So I started with that.
EF: What was your progression?
BB: I moved to Macon, Georgia, and taught at the Stratford Academy from 1983 to '85. There I had access to a kiln and I began to add clay to the concrete. I was making sides of walls out of clay, fragments I called "Frustulums" after the title of Jock Truman's show. Then the walls developed into partial shacks. And I would ride around Georgia and photograph shacks usually late in the day when it was getting dark.
EF: Why did you start to photograph shacks?
BB: It was a gradual penetration of my brain. I had been traveling back and forth visiting family in North Carolina and I started to make structures and one day I said to myself, "I'm making barns." Now when I was a kid I was told that I needed to learn what hard work was. So several summers I worked as a tobacco field hand. Because I was a 

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