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Sculptor's giant head stops travelers on Route 66
By Lorin McLain
Miner Staff Writer

KINGMAN - Archaelogists excavating along Route 66 1,000 years from now may find one of the more peculiar objects of study to be the giant green head that looms over the Kozy Korner trailer court.
Currently the head, artist and New Jersey transplant Gregg Arnold, 36, named "Giganticus Headicus," is a reason many passers by traveling along Route 66 stop for pictures or out of simple curiosity. Miner Photo/J.C. AMBERLY
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Gregg Arnold stands in front of "Giganticus Headicus" alongside Antares Road and Route 66.

"A couple nights ago some girls stopped by to do a girls gone wild thing," said Arnold, describing visitors who recently used Headicus for the backdrop in a topless photo opportunity.

The 14-foot Easter Island head is the first sculpture project undertaken by Arnold, who has additional art projects in progress inside the A frame building, a former bar-restaurant that Arnold is now converting to a home.

Arnold said the inspiration behind building a giant head in front of the trailer court was that the location "looked like it needed one." Headicus, which took about a month to build, was constructed mostly out of wood, metal and stucco, Arnold said.

The aesthetic Headicus provides along 66 seems to be reason enough for travelers to stop at Kozy Korner. Aside from providing a vending machine and phone booth in front of Arnold's "work in progress" of a home, as he calls it, Arnold doesn't provide any commercial service to travelers on the road.

Arnold basically gives travelers a place to "stop and hang out," he said. Another point of interest for visitors of the Kozy Korner is an oil drum full of "baby rattlers" that Arnold maintains not far from the front door.

Arnold moved to Kingman about a year-and-a-half ago, he said, shortly before meeting his current girlfriend, Koze Gibson.

The fact that Gibson, 28, and the trailer court is one letter short of sharing the same name is pure coincidence, Arnold said.

A sign on the edge of the lot that points down the road toward a destination called "Gregg's Hideout" just happened to be there as well.

Kozy Korner is located about 15 miles east from the Kingman airport on Rt. 66.

More information on Headicus and his creation can be found at www.giantheadonroute66.com.

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