Hey, David Smith was a self-formed sculptor (home schooling)! He never actually studied sculpture but started making his own sculptures with materials he found around the house, using the welding skills that he learned when he worked at a summer job in an automobile plant. In the 1950s he had a farm near Lake George, New York, but instead of crops his fields were filled with old farm machinery and tools, rusted car parts, found materials, and a bunch of half-finished sculptures that he was working on all at the same time. (Must've looked cool in the snow.) When an interviewer asked him if he meant for his abstract forms to look like people, David Smith replied: "They don't start off that way. But how can a man live off his planet?" To me, this sculpture looks like a running man who is about to leap.