Indian Shaman Android by Richard Arfsten
Indian Shaman Android is an assemblage of found metal pieces welded into a sculpture. I have always been fascinated with robots and androids. I guess it is the little boy that is trapped in this old body.
This was the first one I made 45 years ago. His head is a radio out of an old Buick Hydroglide that I bought for $10 and drove for about a year. It was like driving around a very large upside down bath tub. One day I went over a bump and the gas tank fell off and I looked behind me in the rear view mirror and I was dragging it by the gas line. Luckily I did not blow up.
The Buick had a nice sounding radio so I saved it and junked the rest. I turned it upside down and found some exhaust pipe pieces and made horns out of them. It had a bunch of copper curly parts and they became the hair.
After a while the "bird" started to tell me the story. This was the time when we (the U.S.) were playing "chicken" with the Russians. There is a clock breast plate on him where the big hand is approaching the "0" hour. It was time to make a decision between war or peace, the gun or the peace pipe. War was not a good choice and would end up with the obliteration of the world.
The piece is about 5-feet tall x 3-feet wide x 2-feet deep.
This was the first one I made 45 years ago. His head is a radio out of an old Buick Hydroglide that I bought for $10 and drove for about a year. It was like driving around a very large upside down bath tub. One day I went over a bump and the gas tank fell off and I looked behind me in the rear view mirror and I was dragging it by the gas line. Luckily I did not blow up.
The Buick had a nice sounding radio so I saved it and junked the rest. I turned it upside down and found some exhaust pipe pieces and made horns out of them. It had a bunch of copper curly parts and they became the hair.
After a while the "bird" started to tell me the story. This was the time when we (the U.S.) were playing "chicken" with the Russians. There is a clock breast plate on him where the big hand is approaching the "0" hour. It was time to make a decision between war or peace, the gun or the peace pipe. War was not a good choice and would end up with the obliteration of the world.
The piece is about 5-feet tall x 3-feet wide x 2-feet deep.