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Speaking of living in other places, yes Nene and I have unexpectantly moved into the monied area to be honest but we just got all excited about the place and bought it after 6 months of looking.
Like I've kidded you about in the earlier part of this letter It's kind of not my usual environment to live in a place like Litchfield. but hey I never had any problems about enjoying nice situations, just as long as I keep in mind it's either because you have the money or not that enables you to do it, not because you're something special.
When you and Johnny get in the old touring vehicle and head east for vacation from amongst the Native Americans it would be nice to have you to stay over in our New England residence. Hopefully you'd extend the same offer to us should we be motoring down in the picturesque SouthWest in our Hupmobile.
The art world, ah the art world will be the death of us. Unlike the other 99% of artists who immigrate from the big cities you have coutinued to keep active and since I travel to these small insulated places, I can appreciate how much work and energy you have to put out to make that happen.
I'm showing a lot and have shown lined up into next year. I've come to a funny conclusion about one of the main reasons why. There is a gap in the chronological history of Black artists doing representative work like you and I do from actual having lived through the 50 and 60's. The only one living are two, Hughie Lee Smith and Jacob Lawrense would be the exceptions. June Kelly has resuccitated Smith and Jake is a living history, most people don't know if he's live or dead.
The artists like Saunders, Saar, Colescott and ?, bring in elements that aren't as "downright genre" that we do. This is not a value judgement it's talking about the vacumn we're filling in the society's