Dream Sparrow

Steel. 2016.

“In about a week of work, I had the sparrow standing as a complete wireframe. I built on the feet and began to fill in the body with 16 gauge steel pieces which I cut from a sheet as well as transmission parts and flywheels. The big bird was coming alive. I would need a lot more material to fill him out completely, and he will be heavy, probably 400-600 lbs. I will have to make many trips to the local transmission shops, who so far, seem only too willing to let me dig through their scrap bins. They find the idea of an artist using their cast-offs an interesting distraction for them, a curiosity, in a world inhabited by grease-monkeys and motor heads.”