Sensory Surrealists

E: I feared I might cook all day if my studio was at home. Its true, to good effect. Luckily I work too. Something is always simmering, marinating, brewing, fermenting, incubating. I'd have a roost of chickens if I could, and messenger pigeons. Pigeons were originally called Rock Doves. I'd send these birds out carrying poems and I'd have a Jersey cow and goat, for making cheese, right here in the city.

P: I cook in my studio while drying papers in front of the oven. Sometimes the art smells of chicken or a roast.

E: True story -- rabbit skin glue as canvas primer smells like sleeping puppies.

P: I never smelled sleeping puppies. . . now rabbit, it’s go.