AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LAWRENCE "TURK" LE CLAIR Page 5.

Joan Garrett and I get married. She is an ex—ba1let dancer;

"Waiting for Godot" directed by Brian Crowe - I help build a theater
in a loft. I install the lighting system and help with the
scenery. I also play the part of Lucky in the play when we open
our theater "The Loft Players."

Ron Rice shows "The Flower Thief" at the free midnight movie in the
East Village.

"Senseless" - Two days later, Rice comes to my studio. I'm in bed -
it's after midnight. He grabs me by the shirt and says.
"We're going to Mexico to make the sequel to "Breathless."
see. You're Jean Paul Belmondo, see." The movie is shot on
the road - N.Y. to Acapulco. when we get to Houston we find
the Purple Onion chopped up into little pieces, even the
paintings and the piano.

CAST
Turk
Joanne
Jerry Heiserman -L.A.Painter
Joe Rivers (son of Larry Rivers, N.Y. painter)
Taylor Mead
when I finish working with Rice. I remain in Acapulco to kick speed.
Hollywood. Go to the Ballet for the 1st time. I see six ballets at
the Greek Theater in L.A.
**San Francisco - Start my Journals as an aid to memory. Am drawing
and painting. My main interest is the New Age Man.
Read "Dear Theo," Walden. History of Painting.

Laura LeC1air m 1st dau hter, is born.Oec. 13. 1962.

Art Institute S.F. 1963 - Painting Class. Teacher is Jack Jefferson.
He likes my work. Tells me to "work bigger." This is the
beginning of painting in oils.

Daniel Moore, painter/writer (City Lights books).
Robert Branaman, painter, film maker.

Reb. Barker, poet.

I meet these artists and work with them. I see "Senseless."

Big Sur - Live in a house on Partington Ridge that has Henry Miller's
watercolors on the walls. (Live in a tent earlier)

Subud - Get "Opened." International Consciousness purification group.
Bapak is my guru.

New Age Tarot is being received on the Ouija Board by subud artists
in Carmel. Cards are painted by
John Starr Cooke And Rosalind Sharpe.
Work a a job building a big house on a ridge, of stone
and adobe.

Outlaw House on Limekiln Ridge built by R. Brenaman. I help him
build a studio on to it. Lots of colored glass windows.
The Park people burned him out 2 years later.

NADADA - We go to Acapulco and meet Tim Baum, publisher of NADADA
magazine. Go to the Bullfights with Tim every Sunday.
Climb the

Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan.

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