"It's Alive"!

A blatantly, self-serving, unauthorized,
autobiography of noted kinetic artist,

R. Bruce Salinger

Life Imitating Art

   After I graduated from High School I secured an apprenticeship with another noted metal sculptor, Greg Quayle.
   There were four or five of us young Turks back then; there was revolution in the air and much enthusiasm for metal sculpture and the arts in general. Each of us would try to stretch the boundaries of what could be accomplished.
   I, remembering the work of Henry Joe Police would try to add as much motion to a sculpture as I could. One of the more important lessons
I learned was never to use a motor stronger than one that cannot be stopped with one's own finger.

   Those times ended all too soon when Greg closed his studio and everyone went there separate ways.  I took what I had learned, hitched up my britches and hit the Arts and Crafts show trail.
   Small and close-by shows at first, then as I began to attract attention and was able to work my way up to larger, more prestigious shows, I began to sell some of my more whimsical kinetic creations wholesale to galleries throughout the country.  It was about that time that I realized that I had gone beyond simple metal sculpture and into the world kinetic art.

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