I thought my idea was original. Suddenly it seems whenever I listen to an artists talk or open a magazine, artists, Theaster Gates, for example, are talking about using or creating archives. But most of what I’ve seen involves collections. Mine are about images that have been collected for a specific site or artist. I started being interested in this idea when I was a visiting ‘Artist in Residence’ at Weir Farm, which is a National Historic Site in Connecticut. It was a residence of J. Alden Weir, an American Impressionist. He had a beautiful farm and studio, and he had parties with important visitors like John Singer Sargent and Albert Pinkham Ryder. There are great old pictures of artists at dinner parties that I used for the sculptures in the ‘work from archival photos’ section. My next project was for a show at Governors Island in New York. Smithsonian has a web site with pictures from the time it was a military base. The latest project is from an image from the Chaim Gross Foundation in New York. Gross made a film about his carving process, and the picture is a still from that filming.