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canvas, I sort of question it at first but then at the end it always comes out right and I find that very amazing.

INT.
Can you tell me, Gerry, when you first met Andy, what he was doing then?

GERRY
Yeah. Well, I met Andy in June of 1963 and I had just finished college and I was in need of a job and Andy was in need of an assistant, and I met Andy at a poetry reading at the New School through Charles Henri Ford and Charles Henri Ford who is a poet and painter introduced me to Andy, and Andy said, Well call me up the next day, and I said okay. And I called him up the next day [[crossed out]] a [[\crossed out]] from school. I had some things I had to finish up out at Staten Island, so Andy said come by on Tuesday, and I did, and I came to this fire house which was his first studio. It was sold at an auction. Some private people bought it from the city and they were going to sell it, but in the meantime they rented it to Andy, so he had this huge old abandoned fire house and the first thing we did was silk screen a silver Elizabeth Taylor. That was the first job I ever did with Andy. And he kept on asking me all sorts of opinions and ideas and, which is unusual for an employer to ask an employee. And then we went around to his apartment and he played rock and roll music and I went looking through some--he had a carton of photographs of car crashes and deaths and different things and after seeing some of his other paintings in the house, I began to realize that this carton or ones like it were source material for his paintings. And it just started that day, that one day in June [[crossed out]] 58 [[\crossed out]] of '63.