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Don Potts, My First Car: Basic Chassis, 1970

Having gained notice in the 1967 exhibitions Eccentric Abstraction and Funk with sculptures that appeared to be, but were not, functional vehicles, tools, or enclosures, Don Potts decided to build a car frame. He built the static Basic Chassis with his brother Bob Potts, along with the functional, radio-controlled The Master Chassis (1970). The brothers also created two car bodies, which could be integrated into either chassis, changing their outward form while maintaining their underlying structure. Basic Chassis is both organic and mechanical, exposed and invulnerable. Potts chose the car as his subject because its form exerted a clear set of functional demands and because it could stand in for that other locomotive machine: a human being.


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