Artist, Lucas Samaras: It is autobiographical, but there's nothing that anybody does that is not autobiographical.
Narrator: That's the artist Lucas Samaras. In the early 1960s, he began a series of works made from found objects.
Lucas Samaras: I stole things that existed in my house. I used forks and knives, pins that my mother used, that I just happened to pick because they must have meant something.
Narrator: Samaras was intrigued by the different interpretations people brought to his work.
Lucas Samaras: When I look at the razor blade, it has associations with being cut, but it's also a wonderful-looking object in itself. Most of these things in your house or anywhere could damage you. If you took your head and knocked it against a piece of wood, it would hurt, if you took your head and knocked it against a nail or whatever, it would equally hurt. So it really has to do with you as much as anybody else. It's partly psychological, partly aesthetic, partly introducing something a little different into the art language.