t ENTATIVELY, a c ONVENIENCE Interviewed by Kent Bye February 16

tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE Interviewed by Kent Bye February 16, I ve been preoccupied with creating fresh contexts for creativity since at least 1975 when I was 21. This led to my creating neologisms to explain myself my activities. Since then, I ve declared myself a Homonymphonemiac, a neologism I ve coined to combine homonymns + nymphomaniac + phonemes to mean a person who obsessively gets off on making puns. In 1975, I also built what is still, as of 2019, one of my main sculptures : the Frame of Reference puppet theater. I imagined that by the time I d get to my 40s my ideas would be so abstruse original that they d be more or less incomprehensible to most people. The idea was for the FoR to be my puppet theater media outlet for public relations rendering myself more comprehensible to the general public. There was more than a little ironic humor involved in that. In 2