Clayton Bailey, Alien Robot, 1985, aluminum and sound activated light

“The real poet studies the world as it is: lovely, terrible, sensible, grotesque; and would ask for no other in its place. Humor is the final sign and seal of seriousness for it is a proof that reality is held in honor and in love.” -- Mark van Doren

Clayton Bailey
Alien Robot, 1985, aluminum and sound activated light

“I search the local flea markets and scrap metal yards for discarded home appliances, cookware , bicycle and automobile parts and reincarnate them as robot sculptures. The past lives of the robot’s various mechanical molecules give them their soul.”
--Clayton Bailey