and grew, and obviously it s very tall, and you are overlooking your neighbours houses and lawns. what do they think? well, they love it. they bring me stuff to make my art out of. this neighbour over here, well, he bought one of my microwave artworks it s a microwaved laptop for $1500. $1500? yeah, and he gratefully displays it in his living room and brags about it. and they re fans, every one of your neighbours fans of your work? they love my work. in fact, just about the entire town of palm springs knows about it. people come from germany, japan, the uae, france, india all different places, telling me they came here just to see this. where do you think this fits in, where you fit in, even, to contemporary america? i don t know where i could fit in. i don t think it fits in anywhere really to speak of. how we got men on the moon and how we ll get men on mars or people on mars isn t going to happen by how things fit in with other things, it s going to happen by how things that
i do with my art. this why not attitude runs throughout kenny s work. he tells me he ll make art out of any unwanted item. it s a mind boggling spectacle. a mishmash of household items painted in bubblegum colours and a whole host of themes, some religious kenny converted to islam while at college. this is the gorilla bod here and the look out, it s behind the gorilla bot. as this thing grew and grew and grew, and obviously it s very tall, and you are overlooking your neighbours houses and lawns. what do they think? well, i love it. they bring me stuff to make my art out of. this neighbour over here, well, he bought one of my microwave artworks it s a microwaved laptop for $1,500. $1,500? yeah, and he gratefully displays it in his living room and brags about it. and they re fans, every one of your neighbours fans of your work? they love my work.
uh! chuckles. he s behind you! kenny! i think this is kenny. that s the man! this is astonishing. your father has told us a little bit about what s going on here but could you take me on a little tour? yeah, absolutely. yeah? fantastic. and you ve made every single one of these pieces, obviously. yeah, made them all by myself. and over how many years? i ve been working on my art for, i d say, at least the last four decades, since i ve been living and breathing. really? yeah, i was just born an artist. on these four acres of land, kenny has used 1000 tons of recycled stuff to create 350 works of art so far. here s the hockey bot. and what is that? it s made out of refrigerators. made out of refrigerators! yeah. right there s the robo bear, it s made out of an air conditioning
of any unwanted item. it s a mind boggling spectacle. a mishmash of household items painted in bubblegum colours and a whole host of themes, some religious kenny converted to islam while at college. this is the gorilla bot here, and the look out is behind the gorilla bot. as this thing grew and grew and grew, and obviously it s very tall, and you are overlooking your neighbours houses and lawns. what do they think? well, they love it. they bring me stuff to make my art out of. this neighbour over here, well, he bought one of my microwave artworks it s a microwaved laptop for $1500. $1500? yeah, and he gratefully displays it in his living room and brags about it. and they re fans, every one of your neighbours fans of your work? they love my work. in fact, just about the entire town of palm springs knows about it. people come from germany,
compressor, and that is santa s wagon up there. that is astonishing. what are the reindeer made of? everything! basically everything is made of everything. is made of everything! yeah. and that is the what bunny? this is the mongolian easter bunny s mobile throne. i m just reading this this is one of the world s only two microwaved microwaves? that is correct. this is a genuine microwaved microwave. i literally microwaved a microwave while it was microwaving. i m the only one in human history that s ever successfully pulled off this accomplishment. shall i ask a silly question? why? why not? both chuckle. again, it s a why not world in a why world and these are the kind of things that i do with my art. this why not attitude runs throughout kenny s work. he tells me he ll make art out