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...make too much of it, but Slater Barron is a lint artist...
...Barron gets so tired of talk that runs like that, and yet it happens all the time. "I've been working with lint so long, I don't see it as anything but an art material," she says. "Artists work with weird materials, or what some people see as weird. I'm not any different from any other artist...
...does not mean that she is not any different from any other artist, rather, that her individuality is not so rare when one considers the art scene. Or at least that is what one gathers in Slater Barron's presence -- that and lint...
...Slater Barron: born East Orange, N.J., 1930; graduated Susquehanna University, 1951, degree in sociology; 1951-53, child-welfare work; 1953-55, U.S. Navy officer; 1955, marriage to U.S. Marine; 1963, art course for military wives while stationed in France; 1963-74, moving, moving, moving, mother of four children, trying to paint and cook and sew and clean house until one day, as she was working in oils, the buzzer went off on the dryer and a light bulb went on in her head. Lint...
...about nostalgia, Barron says, for lint is nostalgic. It is about the fragility of life, and disintegration and death. And yet on the surface it has "the soft look of impressionism." One imagines a sort of shaggy Monet's Flower Garden, done in dust balls...