“I appreciate that we don’t have a cookie cutter home,” his spouse told The Post.
Curt Gray displays comic book heroes and villians on the lawn of his East Meadow home.He now uses recycled metals — car grills, parts of Radio Flyer wagons, bases of stand-up basketball hoops, pieces of children’s beds, Razor scooters and various other crafty materials found at yard sales and on the street — to create his robots.“Whenever I need a specific part for something, it somehow makes its way to me in some way or another,” the comic book lover said. “It’s like I think it into existence.
He’s currently bringing a robot Frankenstein made from a turkey pot and fence post caps back to life, along with a four-foot-long dog – which Gray’s supportive wife, Anne Marie Labianco insistsLabianco, who works in senior home care, says she fully supports her husband’s art, though it might not be her first choice in home decor.
“I appreciate that we don’t have a cookie cutter home,” she told The Post. “But, of course, it comes with compromise.” Last year, Gray came frighteningly close to death with a case of bacterial meningitis. As he “flashed from this world to the next,” he says he had a vision for the Iron Man robot currently in his front yard. After recovering, he constructed the piece in just three months, instead of the typical year it takes him for most robots.
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