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Beak-to-Beak Print

Richard Arfsten

United States

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Beak-to-Beak is a steel sculpture that speaks to nurturing or transferring information. I see it as a big bird feeding another bird - as in a teacher/pupil relationship, one company supplying data to another, or in a health industry role. It is made from heavy structural steel. I hope to be making more from this heavy material in the future. This piece is made so it can be picked up with a fork lift and is heavy enough that it should stay put once it is set down. It is designed to be legal height on a flat bed truck. It has bolt holes if you want it in a permanent spot and want to anchor it. I don't deliver, but I will load it onto your truck with my forklift. It is 10' tall and about 8' wide and finished with exterior industrial machinery paint. The price is with me building a crate to ship it in. If you want to have your trucker put a rain tarp over the sculpture you can deduct $2000 from the listed price. If this sculpture interests you there is much more on this site. Go to the upper right top and enter "Arfsten sculpture" in the search box to see many styles and themes of my work. There are many more pieces of sculpture that I have not had time to put here on Saatchi yet. If you google “Richard Arfsten sculptor” and hit “Images” on the opening page you will see a collection that I plan to put on Sattchi as time permits. There is also many movies of many of these pieces on “You Tube Richard Arfsten sculpture” with the sculpture in a multitude of settings and verbal discussions.

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Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:10 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:15.25 W x 15.25 H x 1.2 D in

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I have an ambitious approach to life ... and to art ... make something happen every day ... but most of all have fun doing it! A sculptor first, and now working in 2D, I do my best to do just that. Presented here are examples of some of my work. •• My sculpture runs the gamut from abstract, to figurative, to architectural. The materials and methods used are diverse ... from figures modeled in clay or wax, then cast in pewter or bronze ... to aluminum maquettes (produced by evaporative pattern casting) which serve as the 3D blueprints for the pieces that are enlarged and fabricated from sheet metal of all kinds. •• My 2D pieces range from abstract to figurative. You’ll find Originals done in oils or acrylic, one-of-a-kind monotypes, collages, mixed media paintings, and more ... I love working in all mediums. Some of my 2D work may be available as reproductions on this site. ••• MY FASCINATION WITH SCIENCE FICTION & MAKE BELIEVE - When I was in second grade, television was new and the hottest thing. The "Adventures of Flash Gordon" was my favorite program. There was only one kid in the neighborhood who had a TV. We, all the kids, gathered at his house for every episode. I was a huge fan of the characters. Flash was cool and my hero. Dale Arden was OK but Princess Aura was way cooler because she was naughty. Ming The Mercilous was very interesting. But Dr. Zarkov and his super duper telescope - that could see into time forwards and backwards, far and near - was the star of the show for me. The spaceship was really hoakey. You could see the wire that it was traveling on and the little puffs of smoke coming out of it were a joke, even for me. But the concept of the show was magical. Also at that time there were radio shows about space travel and aliens and monsters. I would listen to those shows with my grandfather as I sat on the floor next to the big wooden box radio so I could get the full impact of the sounds. •• These shows inspired me to draw spaceships, mostly "new and improved" versions of Flash's ship. I taped them all over my bedroom walls. At night I would travel with Flash. We would go to distant parts of the Universe and explore ancient ruins - like what I saw in National Geographic when I was not looking at the bare-breasted girls of exotic cultures. (I think artists and sculptors, are to a large part, voyeurs.) Those memories pop up in my art over and over. •• Faces also intrigue and inspire me.

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