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T.U.'s first painting, "Ball-Wall", currently in a private collection in San Francisco.
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In 1971, the Lions Club of Copenhagen asked a variety of politicians, actors, writers and others including T.U. to make "a blue elephant" for a charity exhibit to benefit a senior center in Denmark. Though T.U. didn't think he could paint a blue elephant, he had already been wondering what the imprint of the ball would look like. The resulting event turned into a bit of a "happening," with some 50 or 60 family, friends, ballplayers and passersby taking turns with one racquet, hitting balls up onto the canvas, listening and dancing to music, etc. The whole thing was videotaped, which was new technology at that time, and a part of the canvas was then cut away to insert a monitor to show the video on a loop, so that the painting contained the making of the painting.
Original Lions Club article
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