A modern life space:

• lets you enter (door)
• lets you see the outside space (window)
• lets you see your own self (mirror)
• lets you see what else exists besides yourself (light, life, screen)
• lets you exit (door)

When my house was finished, my friend Stanley Kunitz gave me a yellow door, discarded from his house at the other end of town. Inside, I tacked up a van Gogh landscape, a Blake poem, a photograph of Mahler, a picture M. had made with colored chalk. Some birds’ nests hung in the corners. I lit the lamp. I was done.