MS. MINKOWITZ: I was always interested in line, and I adored Albrecht Dürer and the cross hatching, the fine pen and ink cross hatching of his linear works and his woodcuts. I think what I'm doing now is really an extension of line, because I consider the fiber to be a line, and I'm actually drawing three dimensionally with the line. And that was more my interest than painting. I also enjoyed woodcuts and things that were very graphic, with black shapes and linear quality as well. So that was really my main focus.

MS. MALARCHER: So you weren't attracted to working with form and, you might say, harder materials that you had to cut into –

MS. MINKOWITZ: Well, I liked woodcut, which was a flat surface that you cut into, but it also had this raised area that would print the ink, which was also similar to the line and the meeting of the shapes, and that kind of thing. I did, -- I did a few three-dimensional woodcarvings, but they were just like preliminary kind of things. I think, at that time, other than crocheting around the dolls, which was completely three-dimensional, I wasn't really focused on sculpture, per se.
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