Lot's Wife

"I did Lot's Wife in one shot. I went back to do something to it and then I thought, no, don't turn back, don't look at it, leave it, it's good. That's why I called it Lot's Wife, because she turned and became a pillar of salt. This is a sort of pillar of salt on the left of it. When I finished, I called everybody [back] in and they were puzzled by it. What I had done was splash a whole bucket of water down all three stones in one gesture. The framing and printing were as creative a job as the moments spent with the tusche. To have the break work, to have it join and continue the edge was no easy job."

- Helen Frankenthaler, quoted in Judith Goldman, "Painting in Another Language," Artnews 74, no. 7 (September 1975), p. 30.