I had always collected stuff – things that caught my eye, often things that were discarded or no longer fit for their originally intended use. They only had to catch my eye. I didn’t want to purchase stuff to make the “machines” as I had imagined in the earlier sketches, so it occurred to me to start making large scale outdoor assemblages from the collected “stuff”. The stuff included these pieces of wood which I found very beautiful: two were obviously parts of a tree trunk with the bark on, three were very old beams that had been sawed into pieces and left out to weather. This piece almost “constructed” itself, there was only one way the pieces of wood could be stacked, with no nails or glue, and hold themselves upright. A somewhat uncanny process as I thought about it afterwards, when a thing can be constructed by simply looking at its formerly disparate parts.