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NATIONAL EDUCATION TELEVISION
Helen Frankenthaler
Tape Roll 1, Camera Roll 1.
TAKE ONE: TAKE 2 & TAKE 3
INSTRUCTIONS

HF
The thing is that I feel extremely untalkative today and garbled.

INT 
Do you come here everyday?

HF
I try to, yes.

INT
Say--I come here every day.

HF
I come here at least two or three hours a day. I don't always work here but..

INT 
...everyday.

HF
I try to but I don't; I often just sit and read or look at old pictures or look at what I did the day before and wreck it. I would say--well, I'll go through a period of 5 or 6 weeks of working everyday for several hours and then either not come here for a month or come here and not work. It changes. I don't have any strict routine.

INT
What do you do when you work on pictures? Do you....one thing....(INAUDIBLE)

HF
It w varies. If I'm working on a certain idea, I can do 6 or 7