The sculptures, even the tubes themseles,
are jewels salvaged from the modern world,
transformed into icons of glistening beauty
made all the more startling by their garish origins.
               —dell richards, from No Vacancy
                  (unpublished novel, 1978)

Inspired by an Aztec woman from a cigar box label, The Warrior: Portrait of Robin Tyler is a portrait of the spirit of feminist comic Robin Tyler.
    The clear (non-phosphor) colored glass tubes were manufactured by Corning Glass before the 1960s when they were discontinued. Pumped with two of the rare gases, helium and krypton which are not used in commerical sign production, the tubes have a jewel-like quality.