Fabricated for Lucia Stern by Jim DeYoung, ca. 1975 "...However her creative impulse was manifest at a given moment, whether through developing wood sculpture, or sketches and dreams of set and costume design, Stern produced as though she had no limitations, in a world and time when she had many.... Stern would often refer to herself as a “designer,” instead of an artist, in artist statements and interviews. She was unaccustomed to having the right to arrange her own works in the galleries she exhibited in, even in her seventies. Late in life, when Lucia Stern’s key supporters had passed away, including her adoring husband, Stern settled into the echelon of eccentricity often attributed to mysterious and industrious female artists, widows, or single adult women, following her own instincts and living wildly.... There’s still so much we don’t know about Lucia’s life. Though it feels right to appreciate that she was ahead of her time, and articulate that she belongs in a canon of modernist artists that she has yet to enter, that’s not the whole story. Even in the most respectful and well-intentioned accounts of Stern’s career, we don’t get visions into her stranger works. Stern made performances throughout her career, some complete with sets, music, and costuming; she wrote poetry and made light projections to accompany readings. She created modular sculptures intended for touch and play- “children’s toys,” she called them. She created kites, and fabric sculptures and pendants for installations in outdoor spaces. Lucia Stern was unafraid to “go there,” and experiment with what art could be. Her boldness was ferocious. Beyond the relative success of the stitchery paintings she created that showed in renowned galleries worldwide, it was Stern’s unique willingness to create without restrictions on what “art should be,” that made her a truly significant artist, worthy of our contemplation today; after all, it’s work that makes you ask questions that is the most worth consideration. " (http://rachelemkrivichi.blogspot.nl/2015/07/why-not-be-in-on-it.html)