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January 15, 1973


Sheila dear,

Can I almost imagine a spirally wrapped plaster cast, exotically colored to keep the spirits up while the fracture slows you down! But in spite of this inauspicious beginning I have that feeling that it - this new year - will bring progress and delights. Especially when thoughts can flow across the ocean undimmed by time and faceless distance --. Sometimes when I am on a flight I fancy myself free of the plane, the people, the noise; my perspective of clouds always mystifies and keeps me in thrall and enthralled. Like when I was very young and spent nights out of doors mystifying myself and allowing myself to be hypnotizied by the clouds, the moving stars - the sea - always in motion, water my cardinal sign and the moon that controls the water.

Our letters crossed - a good omen - may they continue.

La vie en Rose is fine for 1973 - a prophet.

ITEM

1. First acquisition MOMA in 1960

2. Book: BEYOND CRAFT: THE ART FABRIC

publisher - Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York

3. The transparency of Cristobal's Trapeze was too weak in color especially when we compared it to the reproduction of the detail in life. Is the piece back in Holland? Can we ask Bertheux to have some shots in color taken and rushed to us? I am sure that you and I prefer to do this rather thanto rever t to using the white Huaquen. I spoke to Life about usi g heir trqnsparency - ha - they want $150 plus $35 for one use. We can do better than that in Amsterdam - ne?

Write soon.