“From an old piece of wood found on the loading platform of a long vacated loft on Front Street, within sight of my front dormer, I made my first real construction (outside of those examples made for Scarsdale) and in it I followed a theme already pursued in my paintings: the “vision binoculaire” of the birds. Taking one of the old rusted tricycle wheels from Fire Island, and an iron stove lid from the beaches thereof.” — Robert Indiana
Excerpt from artist’s journal, dated November 18, 1959.
