"That same chair has been knocking around in my studio for years with the funny steps cut into the back of it. After having been drawn so often, it's finally been incorporated into a sculpture. The chair is like a ladder with steps, the box is like a house, the girl is like a Greek caryatid holding up the roof... I've always liked the hardness and softness combined, this wedding of organic and geometric..."
—George Segal in conversation with art dealer Richard Bellamy, 1969