“Collecting is a fine art in itself. My most valuable piece of art came from a New York City dumpster. I can’t remember the year, but I worked around the corner from a NY Telephone Company building on Worth St. One day I saw that Keith Haring had done some chalk drawings on black asphalt tiles on the sidewalks on one side of the building. He did those early baby & TV drawings all over the subways and around the city at that time. The next day, workers came and broke up the tiles to replace them with a new type of sidewalk. Then I saw all those beautiful drawings right there in the dumpster. I climbed in and got two of them out. They were heavy!! I planned to come back later and get some more, but by the time I got off work, the dumpster was gone. I gave one of them away to a friend. I kept the TV drawing and planned to have Keith authenticate it, but sadly the years passed and I never got around to it. He passed away before I left New York to relocate to North Carolina. I still have that asphalt tile brick hidden safely away, chalk is a fragile medium. Someday I will have it authenticated; even if I have to meet Keith at the Pearly Gates to do so!!”