STYROBOT by Michael A. Salter

I like robots...like, not a super fan, but I grew up watching Transformers and Go-Bots, and used to make robots out of legos...

The robots this guy makes...I LOVE!!!!! This might be one of the most amazing, most awesome, most coolest robot I have ever seen, and it's not the only one...he makes tons of them, this being his biggest at a whopping 22' tall this massive piece of polystyrene packing material makes me want one!!! Big shout out to SUBTEXT for opening my eyes to this amazing artist!


A blurb about Michael from his site.

Every city and town has a street, never downtown, lined with strip malls, fast food, and discount stores. Here, I am inspired. It is the most prolific evidence of our current culture. As an obsessive observer I am fascinated, repulsed and hypnotized by the tidal wave of imagery that our visual culture crashes down upon us everyday. I challenge this onslaught and examine it. I want to sort out the cacophony of visual noise and rethink meaning, motive, perception and narrative. In the middle of this infinitely chaotic flow of information, I have a nagging desire, the desire for truth and beauty. Images, moments, situations, spaces, and environments can be so coldly anonymous and at the same time so loaded with meaning. The closer I look the stranger it all becomes. Nothing is as it seems. In a world where mind numbing volumes of stimuli assault my consciousness and elevate my anxiety, I seek peace and clarity. My work is an attempt to slow down, sort out, and focus information. The seemingly simple, runs away from me so fast, and leaves a cloud of dust so thick, I have to stop and wipe my eyes.