Ask him a yes or no question and the response will take several minutes, at the end of which you still don't know the answer. Some of the things he says later sink in. In the museum he remarked how, before giving a speech not long ago, he worried that he would forget what he meant to say. To calm himself, he rubbed his palms together. When we make this gesture, we're brought to a certain physical consciousness.
Art is always about trying to look for consciousness, to bring about an awareness of consciousness.
But then the image of Tuttle rubbing his hands together, calming himself down, stuck and grew. The oval curve, he says, echoes the curve of the Egyptian queen's face. The point of 'White Rocker' was to create an extended line, to show a balance between volume and line. It's kind of hokey. But it turned out that adding the bridge had the unexpected effect of lengthening the line even further, making it seem longer.