Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors.
For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything.
I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.
I met David Smith through my former wife, Cornelia, who'd studied with him.
With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.
As time goes on, I realize more and more that, beginning in the early 30's, David Smith began setting the precedent for what was to come later for many of us.