ARKANSAS TRAVELER is a site-specific sculptural work originally created for the Crystal Bridges Museum exhibition State of the Art 2020. Made from a 100-year-old, 40-foot-tall, tri-legged, Aermotor 602 galvanized steel windmill with a 12-foot-diameter fan that was wasting away in rural Michigan, the work is based on the Arkansas Traveler story and fishing boats that share that name, the homesteaders and farmlands of NW Arkansas, the bison bones that were shipped up to Detroit, turned into fertilizer and paint, and then traveled back down to those same farmers again. The entire sculpture is painted with the same “Bone Black” pigment paint, made in Detroit, that was once made from the charred bones of the American buffalo and is still made from charred bones today, 150 years later. The anthropomorphized Traveler echoes the reclining nudes of Henry Moore, a drunken or lounging or depressed farmer, and how can I make a reclining turbine without a nod to the knight errant himself, Don Quixote, tilting at a tilted windmill, and our own delusional Donald J Quixote, who’s “never understood wind..."