Recycled basketball sculpture utilizing all obvious and not so obvious pieces of vintage basketball equipment. The step stool to get height. The milk crate for basketball in the alleys of the inner city. Vintage basketball rims with no spring attachments and vintage rubber basketballs. The nets flare out as if to say the shots been made. The basketballs suspended in the nets, through the cylinder. Looking like the eyes of an alien. The rims with the orange crate for nostrils, the step ladder with the silver mustache and the hole in the brace for a mouth. WOW! The whole face. Recycled and repurposing the vintage equipment used in this beautiful game. The name, The Euro Step, comes from a recent move incorporated in today's game as well as the actual step stool that holds it all together. Plus the move used to be alien to us, the three step hop or whatever? Plus,
"I never like the 'Euro step' but the piece looks like an alien face. That's what I'm feeling!" - Nicholas Conlon
Alien AKA The Euro Step
Repurposed and recycled sculpture
Metal, Wood, Plastic, Resin, Found Obiects
Size: 49 H x 29 W x 19 in.
Nicholas Conlon, 2023
