i'm so struck by, especially in your early work, was how much criticism you got. I mean, betty parsons often said that she'd never dream of giving an artist who was younger than 35 a show, but she gave you one at 24. And you were then included in a survey show in the whitney in 19 75 that provoked such dramatic reactions from observers and critics that it ultimately cost the curator marcia tucker her job. Yo. Well, i've actually wondered at a lot myself, because i conceive that my work is for everyone. But clearly it wasn't at that point,. whatever the romance of the life of the artist, it's real yorlex