In an interview with architecture American Architecture Now, Louise Nevelson, dressed in her typical artistic extravagance, speaks calmly and assuredly. “One of the most important things in your life is to claim yourself totally. You are born. You stand on your own two feet. You have a center, and that is your true heritage not a lot of other things”. Nevelson’s abstract expressionist assemblages convey formal balances, which she creates in unity with her true center the vibrations of the world around her. She was a very specific and extraordinary woman working at an extremely influential time. It was a convening of person, time and place that allowed for these works to come to us. Yes, any of us could collect wood, attach it to each other and paint it, but we didn’t. Even if we had, we wouldn’t have done it so beautifully. Unlike Louise Nevelson, we weren’t moved