MUSIC: “Two Waltzes, Op.

54” by Antonín Dvorák [paper crinkling] [woman giggling] [dreamy bells twinkling] MUSIC: "Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Op.

28" by Camille Saint-Saëns [muffled talking in background] [milk splashing in bowl] [timer ticking] [dramatic musical flourish] [suspenseful drums rumbling] [angelic musical swell] [eerie discordant string music] MUSIC: “Danse Macabre” by Camille Saint-Saëns [mystical violin playing] [dramatic music builds] [thick splashing] [timer winding, ticking] [timer ticking] [crowd murmuring] [tense dramatic music] [crowd applauding] [timer ticking] [cheering, applauding] [timer dings] ding!

[evil laughing] ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, [evil laughing] ya, ha, ha, ha, ha, haa, haa, ha [somber music] [worrisome music swells] [dramatic drums boom] [timer winding, ticking] [ticking continues] [intense orchestral music] [timer continues ticking] [dramatic musical swell] [timer ticking] [timer dings] ding!

[flame sizzling] [somber piano music] [piano music builds dramatically [melancholic saxophone playing] [music crescendos] [elegant piano playing] [reverent saxophone plays with orchestra] [dreamy classic Hollywood music] [magical twinkling piano] [ethereal and distant saxophone] [train rumbling, clacking] [more train noises] [sound of film projector whirs] [mysterious hissing] [loud train sounds, film projector] [sinister music] [hissing noises] [distant rattling] [ominous droning music] [loud film projector whirring] [more hissing] [film projector whirs] [loud train horn] [ominous and creepy tones] [film projector whirs] [train whistle signals] [low sinister drone] [loud ambiguous CLACK] [film projector whirs] [film projector whirs] [film projector whirs] [train noises] [a long train horn blares] [film projector whirs] [multiple quick train horns] [discordant ringing] [film projector whirs] [film projector whirs] [high pitched tones] [multiple train honks] [a loud train passes quickly] [gentle piano music] [loud clicking] CLICK CLICK CLICK, CLICK, CLICK, CLICK [somber piano and sax] [music fades away] [distant train noises] [crickets chirping] Have you ever heard the theory where people will fall asleep with a key in their hand, and when they fall asleep, their hand relaxes and they drop the key.

And as soon as that key hits the floor, it wakes them up.

As soon as they wake up, that's what they draw.

Or they paint or they write about.

And it's like, I dunno, something not so much deep as deep sleep, but just before and there's something there and they create that.

[ethereal and mysterious music] What I've done is I've taken a business logo, or a business that needs something, like say they want a chicken.

And so I pull out, you know, this roll of, piece of paper and I raw, just sketch this chicken.

From there I map it out with metal and I mock it with metal and bend it, weld it to make this flat picture of this chicken that I painted.

Once I weld all these bars around it to cover all the holes and make this mass chicken, I cover it in papier maché and then I cover that with glue and mirror square, and eventually it turns into this giant disco ball.

But it's shaped like a chicken.

[majestic clarinet and bassoon playing] My metal sculptures are really raw.

And so when I got, when I got into the disco mirror squares, it was like, flashy.

And I was like, Wow.

But I mean, it's fun.

I love it.

I love it.

The metal, it's such a rigid thing.

And if you can, will it like, and mess with it and make it something pliable It's like, awesome.

I just love that.

You know, you have only so much control in your day to day life.

When you finish your 9 to 5, you can come home and yeah.

And create something, have control over it.

With what I'm doing and asking out of myself.

Yeah, there's definitely risks.

I've had stitches and blisters and broken bones and stuff.

People, you know, look at my hands and like, Jesus, what does he do?

Yeah, there's a roughness to it.

I've asked a lot out of my body because of the things that I want to do for my art.

And that's fair, the give and take [xylophone twinkles] Anything that I come across, if it's attractive to me and it's, like, raw, earthy stuff I love to run back to the to the shop here and try to see if I can figure it out and make it look the same.

Like I'm doing landscaping, I dig a trench to make something work and I take a branch and I break it in half and there's a worm in the middle of the branch, the stick.

And so I pull the worm out and it's hollow.

I'm like, That would be an amazing sculpture or even a feather I mean, a feather is so, and if you do it right with a piece of metal and hammer it right and forge it and weld the stem, it can be this forever beautiful feather representing a bluebird, but the bluebird feather won't always be there Something's going to mess it up But if I can replicate it, you can enjoy it forever, it's really awesome.

I love that.

Rust is beautiful.

Patina is amazing.

You can't get that unless life gives it to you.

I'm totally in love with that.

Absolutely.

If I could make, you know, hammer out a piece of metal, where it's super thin, and two years later, it has pits and holes in it from just natural acid rain and then polish that back up.

It's amazing the texture.

You can't get it.

You can only get that through life.

I have metal in my back yard eating away so I can play with it later.

[Robert chuckles] The garage kind of puts me back into being more earthy, you know, and my roots.

So it's, it's kind of raw.

It is.

You're cold and you're hot and you're sweaty.

Maybe just a simple reminder of, you had it worse and now you have your own kingdom and you're creating.

But don't get too comfortable because it always can be taken away from you if you don't work hard.

Death.

It's a feeling that we all have to deal with.

And yeah, I mean, you know, my art— I'm s— I'd be a fool not to say that it doesn't help me in any tough aspect or influence.

And yeah, death is one of them.

Absolutely.

[low pulsating music] I love it here.

And I don't wanna leave.

[beautiful harp music] But I will eventually.

I'll take it.

I'll take as much as I can until then.

And share with people what I think is beautiful.

[dreamy harp music continues]