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underlying support &, as an adjunct to the wood support. Its as though I wanted to make something on top of what could have been a painting. A trifle perverse, perhaps, but if you think of the collage elements forming their own thin pictorial plane, floating & holding together, you get something like a hard thin floating version (1) of Olitski "great" desire to spray & hold color suspended in the air, as if Mother Nature hadn't already done a few rainbows? So I wanted my own thin plane & realized it practically, by simply, putting it on top of a painting. After all, Clem said the merely stretched canvas could exist as ptg, but, "of course, not necessarily as good ptg."

However, clever as this may, or may, not have been or thinking, it was a bust in the practical sense. So we naturally went to a flat triwall support that could be easily dismantled, & would accept cutting & gluing better. In spite

[[left margin]] (1) also like the emphasis 2 D qualities in D. Smith's wk when he knew full how 3 D sculpture was supposed to be. [[/left margin]]