In 1981 during my older brother’s high school graduation, my Uncle Wanky (William Everson) was taking a picture of my brother and his classmates. He made a point of telling us that one of his pictures was going to be a work of ‘art,’ so he tilted the camera and took the picture. He explained that by doing this he was creating a diagonal composition and thus it was closer to ‘art’ than any of his previous pictures. As I stood next to him, little did I know that Uncle Wanky, a factory worker at the Ohio Brass at the time, knew what art was and is. I knew then that art was supposed to separate itself from other forms. One had to announce that one was about to make a work of art.
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