The 1980’s started out with a move from Missoula, Montana (where I taught ceramics), to Norman, Oklahoma (where I would teach sculpture) at the University of Oklahoma. In Oklahoma I had a studio at “North Base”, a decommissioned World War II airbase owned by the University. That is where I really worked on the shoe pieces through 1984. Then I took a couple of years off in 1985-6, and lived in the lower East Side of New York city. The studio in New York is where theI began the “paper shell works”. This included the $1 bill work. In 1988, having exhausted my retirement account and having resigned my second tenured appointment as a professor at the University of Oklahoma, I applied for jobs and got a position teaching sculpture at the University of Texas at San Antonio. I started at UTSA in 1988 and retired as a professor Emeritus in 2020.
