Invision

These were mostly rounded forms, sometimes with sharp corner shapes added. There was no exterior texture detail, but only smooth shapes of which I painted with stains.

My personifications then were based on elemental objectives. I built contexts as characters and carried these out into the city, where I would use random events and circumstance. Anything that would come along I might interpret from the context of any number of unanswered questions posed, or through specific character contexts, as whatever appropriate to the situation. Random circumstance is more trustworthy. If you ask both a good friend and a stranger a personal question, you are likely to get a different answer, with the stranger's more independent and unlikely.

I was down town one time, maybe somewhere up around Cathedral Hill on Powell Street. It was a nice sunny summer late morning. A cable car stopped in an intersection, about to climb a hill heading north. An East Indian man was standing on the front left side running board, as is done standing in front of seated passengers, all in the out of doors. He seemed to be looking around in astonishment. I assumed his character. I was him as an Indian, looking at all this modernity and technology. I also assumed what might be his conservative Indian tradition and ethic, a loyalty to the old ways, thousands of years old. What was this modernity leading to, with it's nuclear weapons, assault on nature, mass carbonation from automobiles, and an infinite number of unknowns ? Then I assumed the character of the new modern man, and that at least in this instance, being an American and living here, I defended the new thinking, the triumph over mass poverty, illiteracy, disease and the rigid caste system.

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