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ABOUT MY WORK, BEING AN ARTIST Leslie Parke ABOUT MY WORK, BEING AN ARTIST Leslie Parke

HENRY IN MY KITCHEN: THE INGREDIENTS OF AN ARTIST COLLABORATION

In 1981 I worked on a documentary with Michael Marton on the not-yet Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, Henry Brant. Marton’s approach to documentary filmmaking was to embed us with his subjects for a long period. This documentary coincided with when I was working on the drawings featured here, which ultimately led to a collaboration between Henry and me on a piece he did for the Holland Festival called Inside Track.

Here is a story I wrote at the time about just how embedded things could get.

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