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Breer's floats on the move.
junior high kids who used to come to the gallery after school. They'd lie down on the floor of the gallery and wait until the floats would nudge up to them. Those kids understood that the floats were atmospheric, which was the point as far as I'm concerned.
MacDonald:
Why did you start working with the rotoscope in
Gulls and Buoys?
Breer: Gulls and Buoys
started in the South of France. We took four kids down to an apartment in a chateau that we rented for eighty dollars a week. I was supposed to be on vacation for once. I had gotten this heavy number about not always working, but I still wanted to. The place was very bare. There was a desk and a desk lamp. The desk had a deep drawer, and I put the lamp in it and made a light table with a piece of broken glass. I bought cards in a little stationary store. I'd buy them out every dayfifty cards. I just started drawing. I outlined my hand, and then I took the key out of the desk and outlined that. I guess from that I