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series on whose base I already have confidence in. This can't be anything but helpful. 

Hang on, looking back at it all this way seems to me now that none of the "strict style" striped ptgs. were shaped-canvases. The business of notching, or taking parts out of regular pattern stituations, or even chosing regular shapes that have perimeters other than the rectangle, essentially means nothing. The '66 ptgs were the 1st shaped canvases. This means that it took me 8 yrs to get ready (i.e. all the shaping in the "strict style was preparatory) to make a move that I knew was going to be really problematical, and that's the way it still remains today. I've tried hard during the 70's to deal with that problem, But you point out rightly, and I don't know how you figured it out, since I just got it now, that I came out of it with something pretty good - the Brazilian ptgs & the birds and they owed this success to something lying back there in the potential of abstraction - painterly constructivism that used some of the drive in the shaped canvas idea