Drone Dreaming Bird Sculpture

Drone Dreaming Bird - 2015, sculpture/assemblage (photography: Den Porvatkin) The story that goes with this sculpture is partly true, partly based on a joke popular at the end of Twentieth Century, time when the American football team Denver Broncos, exasperating it's fans, have played unsuccessfully in seven Super Bowl finals. The story answers most of the above questions. Not so long ago, when Denver Broncos were still dreaming to win the Super Bowl, General Shwartzkopf, a staunch fan of the team was taking a quick mind-clearing walk in the Southern Iraqi desert. It was the night before the big Desert Storm offensive and while strolling absentmindedly or rather thinking of another Broncos defeat in the AFC Final, he suddenly tripped over something buried in the sand. He bend down and picked up a thing covered with lumps of sand. A lamp! It was an old lamp, just like in the story. Without thinking, trying to get a better look the General rubbed it with his sleeve and ...PFOOF! ...Suddenly a twisting, growing shape popped out from an orifice of the lamp! It grew rapidly into a huge Genie, covering most of the sky. He was dark, massive and looked like a huge oil spill with a wry smile. That's because this routine with being found, and gratitude, and the stupid wishes was "killing" him...so to speak. He was really craving for his long due session with his beloved shrink in Baghdad. He composed himself and managed to address the stunned general in a rather civil tone: “ thank you for Saving me general - I was prisoner in there for ages! ... So you know the drill ; you have the right for a wish ...so tell me your wish! ...it can be anything...well, almost...you have two tries - one out of two, or your money back ... I mean - I go back inside my lamp! Scout's honor! said Genie, very confident. It never happened! ...obviously he was lying... The stunned general with so much on his mind uttered : “...Anything? I can’t really think of anything!” “ Oh, come on General!” insisted Genie “Say the first wish that come to your mind!” Come on!" The general pondered for a moment and said: ”OK, I got it, I got it! Make..." he hesitated, "make the Denver Broncos win The Super Bowl! " he blurted with a grin. This time it was Genie's turn to look stunned..then he said categorically that he can’t do that and that the General should come up with another wish but fast, really fast or there is no deal and they both lose.. Not very surprised the General took his time and slowly pulled out from his back pocket the map of The Middle East. Unfolding the it very carefully and moving his hand over most of the map, he asked: “Can you make peace here?”. The Genie gave him “the look”, put the customary seven year curse on him, shrunk to the appropriate size and reluctantly crawled back into the lamp. ...seven years later The Denver Broncos won their first Super Bowl. A short while later The Lamp was found by a retreating Iraqi soldier who after the war opened an antique shop. Several years later it was bought by a United Nations worker stationed in Bagdad who brought it to New York City where for a while it laid buried in a long term storage. Sometime around 2015 it got into the hands of a friend who was helping with the moving. He was a visual artist who took it appart and reassembled parts of it it into a bird that supposedly is dreaming that she is a Super-drone that fights for her homeland. Nobody knows what happened to The Genie nor to The Wish for Peace in The Middle East...