Scott is currently hanging at MOMA

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A couple of friends of Scott's called in the past few weeks, notifying him that some of his photographs were hanging in a current show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He had no idea! This series of hands was done in the mid 60s. There are something like 40 or 50 in the original installation. The hands were reproduced in a fine art publication for the Fluxus Group. He made a special print for me of John Cage's hand from this series several years ago. And he gave me another this fall of a gay artist he thought I would be attracted to: Ray Johnson.

Scott took off on a cross country road trip to his hometown of Portland, Oregon today. His sister had a stroke. He insisted (after I mentioned it three times) that he wanted to drive and not fly. I went by his house last night to see if he needed anything. We listened to several tracks from a Gerry Mulligan CD. My favorite was a recording of Lost in the Stars - a very cool duet between Gerry's bari and a trombone with very light rhythm - only bass and brushes. A perfect anthem for cold December! Here the stars are crystal clear. Scott is still my model for how to be at eighty-five.