The Electric Man

Since I was supposedly building the Impala project as some sort of performance/installation art project, it seemed important for me to produce a few other art-type things.  After being apprenticed to the welded-steel artist Joe Crosetto (anybody who knows how to reach Joe, please email me; Joe taught me the "Beer First, Safety Third" method of welding and I am very grateful for his instruction) I built the torso, waist, and neck portions of the sculpture you see in this photo.  These pieces sat around for a few years, and were then incorporated into artist Lars Israelson's massive "Electric Man" sculpture, which towered over the Irvine Meadow West RV Park's Sculpture Garden for several years.  If you look very closely at the base of the Electric Man' right leg, you can just make out the Impala's original 283 block, which was used to keep the sculpture from falling over (the other leg is attached to a Datsun engine block, which probably contributed to the supposed instability which forced Lars to dismantle the Electric Man after a drunken-frat-boy incident in 1997).