“The fact that those beams come very, very close to the width of a tombstone and that I should have been early preoccupied with “Eat” and “Die” in that context isn’t so unusual. And neither is it irrelevant that as a child I was fascinated with graveyards…tombstones to me were absolutely fascinating. My early steles and herms were the exact proportions of tombstones.” – Robert Indiana
Excerpt from Donald B. Goodall, “Conversations with Robert Indiana,” in Donald B. Goodall, Robert L. B. Tobin, and William Katz, Robert Indiana. Exhibition catalogue (Austin: University Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin, 1977)
