So, this whole economic recession has been kinda putting the squeeze on independent artists like myself.  People have been holding on to what little they have these days and selling sculpture has become an even more uphill struggle. 

While cruising for junk recently I came across a small oak wine cask and immediately thought of old political cartoons depicting people wearing barrels as a symbol of their poverty.  Naturally the thing to do was to make a “self portrait”.  Po-Bot will be a coin operated sculpture.  He will not perform until he receives a quarter.  I have not yet worked out this aspect of the piece, but the general figure and mechanics are pretty much done.  Below is a video of the mechanism and some process images that led up to this point.