Jasper Johns and Rauschenberg Box

I was more interested in the love relationship that the two artists had, regardless if they are gay or straight. They were very close and secretive about their love affair and were in a world all to themselves. Johns has said, "Our world was very limited, I think we were very dependent on one another". They probably kept their relationship a secret to protect them from others opinions which would have most likely been negative or perhaps violent. The inside of my box is a somewhat barren and simple landscape that depicts the two artists own world that is separate from society and others. The outside of the box is a labyrinth that leads onto the lid where you enter the small environment. My idea for the maze came from a poem by Hart Crane who Rauschenberg admired and related to who influenced his art. A quote from the poem is "a labryinth submersed where each sees only his dim past reversed". This could allude to Rauschenbergs old feelings towards his relationship with Johns and how it is hard to reach back and remember past experiences or relationships.