Robert Indiana kept a series of illustrated journals during the late 1950s and 1960s, in which he discusses the development of his work as well as his daily life on Coenties Slip.

In his journal entry for November 13, 1962, Indiana records that it was close to 5 a.m. when he and his partner John Kloss got back to the loft (they had been at a party at Eleanor Ward's for Virginia Kondratieff, of Dwan Galler (where Indiana was to be included in the exhibition My Country 'Tis of Thee, opening on November 18), and that "needless [to] say [the] rest of [the] day was pretty much pfuii [sic]."

He writes that his brace (for The Red Diamond American Dream #3), which he had requested the day before, was ready, and that it appeared "[to] be a fine job." He also notes getting his photographs back from Art in America, and that it was "ambiguous as [to] how many were actually used." (The photos were likely for the article "Folklore of the Banal" by Dorothy Gees Seckler, published in the Winter 1962 issue.)

Indiana records going to the opening of the Tom Wesselmann exhibition at Green Gallery, and mentions the art world figures who were there, including Martial Raysse, Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely, Jim and Mary Lou Rosenquist, Claes and Pat Oldenburg, Virginia Kondratieff, Eleanor Ward, Sven Lutkin, Andy Warhol, and Henry Geldzahler, He notes that the "Tremaines [collectors], or people of that caliber, were not in evidence," and that he bumped into curator Campbell Wylly, who told him that his drawing was up (in an exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art's penthouse).

Indiana also mentions that he added arrows to his construction Womb.