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  Skysaver
1981

Solo performance. At that time, I was teaching painting to mental patients in New York. The piece investigated the life and art of the insane, in my own experience and throughout history.

From the text:
John Petrolak is 58 years old, institutionalized for 28 years. For the past two years, he has been working on one pencil sketch of Abraham Lincoln. Each week, he draws two or three lines of the face and stares at it for hours.

Theodora Skipitares