We were fine; there was no big interruption.

No, I'm fine with everything.

I saw your face on the sticks on Pardon the Interruption . That's big.

The Interruption of Everything

There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have achieved a form that is simplified to its essence,

It was really no big deal then, and still isn't to me. I think the whole problem with it is they made a really big deal of it after I left. To me, it was already done. I was at home. I don't really even remember it.