In his large workshop behind his house he spends his free time creating sculptures and managing his display (menagerie?) of finished pieces. Several years ago, rusted scraps of metals, and deserted antique objects began piling up in his yard. “When he started,” says his wife Karen, “and piles of metal started appearing on the drive, it was ‘what’s this junk?’ And now that I know what he can do, it’s like ‘oh, we have more inventory.’” Kitchen has a powerful sense of creativity and a nonstop drive, which turns those piles into incredible works of art. “He certainly does it on a large scale and with a lot of humor behind it,” says Heather Haskell the Director of the Springfield Museum of Fine Art.
