Piper awarded senior status NEA Visual Artists' Fellowship. Also awarded two-year Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship to do research in Philosophy at Stanford University. Gets married. Travels to Jamaica on honeymoon, meets mother's family in Kingston, Portland, and Port Antonio. Moves to Menlo Park, California. Begins work on manuscript, Rationality and the Structure of the Self. Listens to Charlie Barnett, Artie Shaw, Woody Herman, Steely Dan, Heinrich Schütz, Guillaume de Machaut.