ABSTRACT
I hung on the wall the work I had been doing for several months. Then I sat down and looked at it. I could see how each painting or drawing had been done according to one teacher or another, and I said to myself, “I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me-shapes and ideas so near to me-so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.” I decided to start anew-to strip away what I had been taught-to accept as true my own thinking.
