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the weather didn't especially stop him. He would put layers and layers of clothing on and would ignite that kerosene thing and work. But there were some months, about three [[strikeout]] four or five [[/strikeout]] months of the year when it was bitter, bitter cold out there. Otherwise, he could manage somehow or other. He did an enormous amount of work considering that there was no heat in the barn.
BR: Did you feel that temperamentally the seasons had an affect on him out there?
LK: At the time I wasn't aware of it as such. Certainly his relationship to nature was intense. For example, the moon had a tremendous affect on him, and he like gardening. Just walking on the beach in the winter time, with snow on the sand was exciting. He identified very strongly with nature.
BR: What do you mean by the moon having an affect of him?
LK: He painted a series of moon pictures, and spoke about it often. This is one of the things we had in common, because the moon had quite an affect on me too. It made me feel more emotional, more intense- it would build a momentum of some sort for me. He spoke of the moon quite often. In the explanation of  Portrait in a Dream I referred to, he spoke [[strikeout]] speaks [[/strikeout]] of the "dark side of the moon." There was a whole series of moon paintings-- Moon Woman, Mad Moon Woman, Moon Woman Cuts the Circle. 
BR: Do you know where his knowledge of mythology came from?
LK: I think his interest in myth originally stems from one of his highschool teachers in California. Schwankowsky [[strikeout]] I can't remember the man's name, [[/strikeout]] but he was interested in Eastern philosophy. He introduced him to Eastern philosophy, and consequently he attended [[strikeout]] many [[/strikeout]] lectures by Krishnamurti. All of which happened long before I met him. By the time I had met him, he had been in Jungian analysis. That would be more in that direction. 
BR: Did he know anything about Indian legends actually?
LK: I know that he used to relate how his father took him on trips where they used to see where the Indians used to live, so he must have had some contact back there. How much he knew of the myths, I don't know. He had the Smithsonian books on the American Indian. I think there were twelve volumes of that, and since he had them I assume he had read them. In there, he could have dug out myths, if he didn't know of them prior to that.
BR: Pollock's actual materials- his brushes, paints, etc.--where did he get them? And did he prefer a certain range of color?
LK: He preferred house painter's brushes, rather than fine art brushes. He