"The Picture Show, presenting Nebraska artists in the permanent collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska."

[Sidney Buchanan] "Well, it seemed just natural, I always liked playing with my hands. When I was a little kid I'd always build things out of mud. I'd get mud out of the yard and I'd build heads and I put buttons from my mother's sewing box in for the eyes and I'd do all things...And I'd... I'd build things in the back yard out of wood. I'd drag in wood and beams and 2x4's and I'd build things that resembled tanks and cars and airplanes."
[NARRATOR] "Sidney Buchanan is perhaps the best known Nebraska artist working in welded metal sculpture. He uses junkyard pieces of steel. 1950's auto bumpers, chunks of locomotives and boilers, twisted beams from demolished buildings, and shapes them into sculptures."
[Sidney Buchanan] "I just really enjoy the process of welding. I suppose it's like a painter who enjoys laying that paint on the canvas. It has a feeling of laying it on.When you're doing outside pieces, there's... there's concrete, there's steel and there's fiberglass. There's some materials that will last for a long time but you still really can't beat steel. That piece outside will slowly, slowly change over the years. It's almost like a human being.When I started out as a student I liked Realism and I thought Abstraction was just anybody could throw it together. Then I got into more or less non-objective things and I just liked the relationship of forms and colors and shapes in the non-objective. But something like a table or a chair, it's just a good subject matter to start with. It lends itself to a lot of ideas as far as the design of it.This is like a big coffee table. The name of it is going to be Coffee Table with Junk Drawer so there's going to be a drawer and this is going to be the... the front of the drawer and then it'll be about there. And then I'm going to have either a big massive knob on the drawer so it'll look like a read drawer.I might use a lot of colors on this. I might even paint a lot of it white. I might put some gold trim in here, maybe some blue. It'll look like something from Elizabeth Taylor's bedroom."