“Although I thoroughly enjoyed my time in architectural school, and was quite successful at my studies, I was eventually grand juried out of school for being over-involved in my work. I did manage, however, to apprentice with Mirko Baseldella (sculptor in residence) at the Carpenter Center for the Arts of Harvard University for one year. I learned from Mr. Baseldella that pictorial arts can also be based on diagrammatic structures, only it is not the constructive diagrams as expressed by architecture, but rather the visual analysis of the creative principals of nature. It was naturalist orientation that could aid in the production of figuration.” These drawings were made during his studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and prior to his work as an assistant to Frederick Kiesler.