Ancestors
The first piece in this series was created in 1966 in Paris. I could not afford the paint to create large works on canvas. Walking through a public park, I hit upon the idea of tying small twigs onto unprimed canvas. This was my first work that was not a painting.
I expanded on my original approach in revisiting the format several times, using the twigs remaining from Paris together with newly harvested twigs from my garden in Kansas City.
Each one of these artworks vary between 5ft by 9ft and 5ft by 7ft.
