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"PLEASE DON'T FORGET ... "
"... vastness, the sweep, the panorama of that open Indiana countryside" -- Rolling Prairie
"... like Daniel Boone"
"So I really grew up in the Midwest, though I am a mixture of the extreme differences in heritage. Please don't forget I am a real product of Midwestern America."
"... as a true American"
"... all-American boy"
"... I saw something totally unknown in the art world -- an American phenomenon"
"... the idealism that flourished in the twenties and thirties ... this energy of the American frontier."
[inspired both by ancient Japanese "tumuli" and the Native American (Hopewell) mound builders, his mnemonic response to the sights of such landscapes] -- "...got me going" "...earth sculpturing"
"My model [Momument to the Plough] indicated my wish to belong to America, to its vast horizons of earth."
in rural Indiana ... he "got the feeling of America superimposed on the old Japanese."
"... you see, I am a Hoosier too."
[voted by Indiana school classmates, in their yearbook] "Biggest Bull-Head"
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