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| By 1985 I had been exhibiting my work in galleries and museums for 10 years. I became disillusioned with the Art World, a world that seemed academic and joyless to me. I had grown tired of preaching to the converted.
Breaking out of these confines took the form of the LIGHTMOBILE, a Volkswagen Beetle covered with 1659 computerized lights. I finished building it in March, 1985, after 5 months of work. I drove it all around New York City, on more than 100 nights. The reactions were amazing: the smiles, waves, thumbs-up, comments shouted. It was the most exhilerating experience of my life.
I now had a mission: to share my optimism with as many people as possible. I followed LIGHTMOBILE with other mobile public artworks: the BUBBLEBOAT 1986 and BUBBLEHEADS 1987.
This section of my site illustrates these and other works in a continuing series of what I call 'urban UFOs'. | |
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|  first in the series was the LIGHTMOBILE | |
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