Art Sculpture - The Captive Start Price USD 250,000.00 Current Price USD 250,000.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, July 09, 2008 End Time Saturday, July 19, 2008 Location Baltimore, MD See more about 'Art Sculpture - The Captive' Description Description: This sculpture is 9'8'' tall and 3' wide with chains hanging and could be 10 feet or more with chains extended and weighs approximately 300 lbs. It's made of steel to represent strength and a lion cloth for our privacy. Painted in a golden color to represent the wealth we all seek, a sword, our bravery and courage to fight to the end of out lives. A shield for our defense and defiance an arrow and spear for our bravery to sustain injury and our will to resist captivity to the end of our lives or freedom, the chain's of captivity. Purpose: This sculpture is intended to represent the oppression of nations, races, gender, groups or individuals by power, persecution, or held in bondage by psychology, money, love, hate, drugs, or by any means and seek to be free. Hence, the following words that is also copyrighted and sold with the sculpture as one item. Registration #VAU 720-650; November 2, 2006 Captive: Ever since the dawn of time, humans and animals have been held captive by man. Some reasons are beauty, race, religion, sex, love, ignorance, greed, money, power, economics, weakness, culture, enemies, environment, and drugs. But the spirit of the living and laws of nature are to resist captivity even though this could bring about the destruction of a complete nation, race, or species. Regardless of the tradegy or pain, the laws of the universe compel all living organisms to resist to the end becoming captive. -W. Regan Martin 10-22-06 Location: The art work is currently on exhibit at the prestigious American Visionary Art Museum, 800 Key Highway, Baltimore, MD 21230-3940.  The exhibit will be available for viewing and inspection through October 30, 2008. History and resume of W. Regan Martin: Born in Guyana, South America in 1946 to Black and Amerindian parents, raised by his grandmother. At age 12, with no money to buy food and clothes, he got his first job at a saw mill as an office boy. As his life progressed, he held diverse jobs becoming a sign artist, laborer, and carpenter. Leaving for the jungle in Guyana (South America), he spent years working as a logger, gold prospector, truck driver, and diamond driller. Upon his return to the bauxite town of Mackenzie, he worked as a mechanic, millwright, welder, iron worker, and contractor. By the age of twenty-one, he had become a workaholic, alcoholic, and womanizer. He migrated to the United States in 1985 and continued working as an ironworker, welder, and contractor. During that period, he would continue to sketch, draw, and sometimes use water color as a self taught artist. After September 11, 2001, his opinion about life changed drastically. Realizing tomorrow may never come, he decided to spend more time doing something he loved. So the first thing he did was to give away his television and began painting and inventing. So far, he has completed more than 75 paintings, numerous drawings and sketches, and the CAPTIVE sculpture. He also has one existing utility patent, #6675913.132. He has fathered nine children, now divorced and a U.S. citizen residing in Baltimore, MD. When one does not have the education to communicate verbally or literally, drawing and painting becomes another medium of speaking to the world. Place a Bid!