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Williamsburgh waterfront. I stopped my work to make my home. (Sonja and I were to be married as soon as the work was done.) During this time, I also walked the floor of the American Museum of Natural History as a guard. Day by day I filled my notebooks with diagrams for work that Fall. My first block icon with electric light emerged in December. Electric light and paint light played together in eyewise contrasts and compliments.

Throughout 1962, I continued to enlarge this "new face" for painting until it reached the heroic scale and blank magic of "The Pure Land." After that