When I lived in New Mexico during graduate school and later in New York. I used to have these FLYING DREAMS where I could just spread my hands like wings, lift my legs and fly. I used to tell Karen about these dreams. Anyway, in one of these dreams I flew and found myself with Georgia O’ Keefe in her studio in Abique, N.M. and we had a wonderful visit. Her Adobe house was two stories in my dream, and her latest painting that was on the easel, still wet, was of the mountains and the sky and a little adobe church in a New Mexico landscape. All was painted in parallel lines. The mountains, the trees, the sky, the tiny houses everything painted in parallel lines. The picture is etched on my mind. Next morning when I woke up I realized that, that was MY dream and MY subconscious showing me the way to paint. Well, I did not exactly realize that for a long time but I decided to paint the image from that dream in the linear style which I believe, was revealed to me. That was the first LINEARISM painting.