"I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.”

—John Chamberlain

John Chamberlain found inspiration in the most unconventional places and objects, often salvaging crushed automobile parts from junkyards to create abstract metal sculptures. The title, Swannanoa/Swannanoa II, alludes to the Swannanoa River that flowed near Black Mountain College where Chamberlain attended in the 1950s.