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Artist Recalls Summit Incident That Led to Masterwork
Director and artist Robert Wilson, at a ceremony in the Hamptons, recalled an incident in Summit that eventually led to his creating a seven-hour-long work called "Deafman Glance" in the 1970s.

Avant-garde artist Robert Wilson regularly recalls an experience he had in Summit that affected him as an artist and led to his adoption of a deaf teen.
One of Wilson's most popular works is a seven-hour silent film called "Deafman Glance," which is based on the world of his adopted son Raymond Andrews. Wilson originally got to know Andrews, as he tells it, after the artist came to his aid when he was being beat by a police officer in Summit in 1967, according to a report from Stanford University.
Recently, Wilson has been retelling the story. He created a fundraising event for foster children called ArtRageous.
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