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| A few years later, I showed some
sculpture in his office for a fund raiser.
The attorney was Carl Levin who represented indigents in criminal
cases at the Michigan Defender’s Office. We stayed in
touch.
He and his wife, Barbara were interested in buying a sculpture but
didn't
have much money. By the time he saved up enough to meet the price
I last gave for something, the price had gone up.
During this time I was finishing the Wheel and Pendulum series and wanted to make an artwork that would be affected by a factor outside of itself. In their living room was a harpsichord that Barbara had built from a kit. I asked her to play
something for me. So she sat down and
ripped off a little Bach number from memory. She said she
would
like a sculpture to go on the wall over her harpsichord. I said I would
like to make a sculpture respond to the sounds of the instrument and
express
some of the
qualities of those sounds in its form. They liked the idea.
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