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know I would not be tied and be dictated that you cannot have a show here, and whatever you sell, we take part of it. And I suppose it's good for promotional purposes, not that I don't want promotional things for my work. I'd be lying if I said I didn't. But I would like to have it done in the right way. And I'm not pushing it. The time will come when it would work out. I have a strange feeling that knowing myself-- someone said, "I like this piece, but it would have to wider, it has to be certain color," that I would try to accommodate them. I don't want to get in that position. For the time being.

Q: That's endless, if you get into that.

Takaezu: That is. And I know one gallery and all the people say "Why don't you join that gallery?" They really wanted me. I don't want to name the gallery, but at the end the gallery went broke and I wasn't involved, and I thought, "That's it. I don't want any part of this." And you always worry what you have, what you don't have, keeping inventory. No I don't want.

Harvey Littleton's daughter has a gallery in Washington and we had a group show, and she returned everything, except she wanted a few more, so I let her have it. But it's small enough so I can keep the inventory and know what's going on.

Q: So that most of the pieces you've made throughout your life are right here, is that right?