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

[NARRATOR] "Hamilton County, Nebraska, away from the noise and fast pace of the big city, a perfect place for an artist. In this barn that he built, Ed Dadey lives and works. He constructs wooden sculptures that resemble furniture and sometimes can be used as furniture. But the first consideration is always sculptural. It may take him months to finish one piece, this barn is definitely not an assembly plant."
[Ed Dadey] "And it's sort of a process of intuitive engineering I guess as I'd refer to it and the way I put something together. I try to achieve an affect in which it looks as if it grew rather than was constructed. So you have that organic flow.Part of my designing comes from either based on insects or a skeletal form of the human body. Insect ideas come from... I have a dread fear of spiders and so some of my tables have these legs shaped like spider legs."
[NARRATOR] "Dadey works on several pieces at once to avoid getting tired of doing the same thing."
[Ed Dadey] "But once a piece is done it's done. All the problems will get solved, all the excitement, you know, the process is over. All the emphasis is on process not product. You know, that's where all the fun is and that's what you have when it's all over because the thing could break or burn or... you know, be gone tomorrow and what are you left with. You know, it's the fun you're having while you're doing it is where it all counts."
[NARRATOR] "But what his customers are left with are beautiful pieces of art. A private collector owns this handsome library furniture. A downtown bank displays it's annual reports on this free-standing rack. The Sheldon Gallery added this table to it's collection of Contemporary American Art."