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1. Describe the community in which Robert Irwin grew up.

Robert Irwin grew up in southwest Los Angeles, attending high school in the mid-Forties. He attributes his easy sense of well-being at least in part to that experience. Most of his colleagues at the Ferus Gallery--L.A.'s funky, avant-garde community of artists--grew up in similar backgrounds. It was an artistically rich place in which to grow up.

2. How do those who grow up in this community view the world?

They can have instantaneous and intimate conversations with total strangers. Though they may not have much in the way of material wealth, they look at the world as their oyster just waiting to give them all the pearls they want.

3. Who is Joan Tewkesbury?

Recently, Irwin began living with Joan Tewkesbury, who is a successful screenwriter, having written Robert Altman's Nashville and Thieves Like Us. It was in her honor that Irwin wrote the unproduced screenplay The Green and the White (his high school's colors) whose characters symbolized his high school days in L.A.

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