As he tells it, he was living in New York and depressed and so he went to the SECOND best astrologer in Manhattan.

And the astrologer said to Rauschenberg:

I don't know how you've made it through this period! When you are depresssed, you must go to the sand and the sea!

And so to Florida and Captiva Island . . . .

What a great artist, who has given us so much.

I work in the gap between art and life.
—Robert Rauschenberg