The main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to expand and intensify the presence of the vessel - the object.
Claes OldenburgI am an immigrant in a sense. What happened was that my father was stationed in New York when my mother became pregnant, and she said, "I've got to go to Sweden so this child can be born there, because you don't have any idea where you're going to be transferred next."
Claes OldenburgThe thing about the ray gun is, you pick up anything you see on the street that's the shape of a gun.
Claes OldenburgYou can take an object and simply put anything you want in that object, and I accessed that partly through Freudian ideas.
Claes Oldenburg