The thing about the ray gun is, you pick up anything you see on the street that's the shape of a gun.
Claes OldenburgWhen you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.
Claes OldenburgI was always interested in drawing. As a child, I started my own country, which was called Neubern. It was located in the South Atlantic. I did the documentation of Neubern in great detail. I drew everything that was there, all the houses and all the cars and all the people. We even had a navy and an air force. I spent a lot of time drawing.
Claes OldenburgI had, over the years, collected things, small things, as people do, and I had put them all together and showed them in what became a building in the form of the Geometric Mouse.
Claes Oldenburg