Robert Indiana kept a series of illustrated journals during the late 1950s and 1960s, in which he discusses the development of his work as well as his daily life on Coenties Slip.

In his journal entry for April 9, 1962, Indiana discusses his interview with Dorothy Gees Seckler for Art in America (the article, "Folklore of the Banal," would be published in the winter 1962 issue). He records that she called from a phone booth at Wall and Water Streets, and that he met her in Jeannette Park. He writes that she did not bring her tape recorder, and that the interview: "was very easy and casual. She seemed to react favorably [to] my work and defended it for me when I began [to] talk about [Roy] Lichtenstein and [James] Rosenquist, whose work she has not seen. Her approach seems [to] be from [the] starting point of the object, and in particular with [Jasper] Johns, how we have transmuted that."

Indiana notes that he wanted to veer her towards his "Eat Sign" (likely a reference to the Eat panel of Eat/Die),  but that she was more interested in his constructions and his use of stencils. He gave her photographs that he had taken of his loft, an outside view and an interior one of his "constructions massed together with Particci [Indiana's cat] in the foreground." Indiana records that she stayed until eight, and that they ate dinner together at George's.