Transformer: The Work of Willie Cole
Catherine Bernard When my son was about nine or ten years old, he had toys named Transformers that would turn into different things: one minute they would be a car, and the next, a tiger. I was born in 1955 and grew up watching Disney cartoons and also Max Fleischer cartoons, which were influenced by Surrealism. In his cartoons, you would see a piano turn into a smile, or an alarm clock would ring and make a face, the handles would become arms and it would have a headache. So you see I grew up with a lot of transformation through media and education!