I made films from the - when I was a little kid, my father bought me a movie camera. I just wanted to. I don't know how. You just learn, you just do it. You just do it.
Robert BarrySo I never had trouble getting work or working or doing - I always worked. I worked when I went to college. I worked after school.
Robert BarryAfter I did the drawings of trees combining them with words, I started doing - I did that for a very short time. Then it kind of - that sort of evolved into just showing the branches of a tree coming down into the trunk and then going into the root system. So I showed both the branches and the roots of a tree, which were about equal. There is as much going on under the ground as is going on above the ground, which you can see.
Robert BarryAgnes Martin is a big influence in my work actually, when I first saw her, these fine grids.
Robert Barry