“I chose to make a soft drum set for the International Exhibition of Sculpture, which was held in the autumn of 1967 at the Guggenheim Museum, because of its resemblance to the architecture of the building. The subject, with all its accessories, was impossibly detailed, especially in its “soft” state of collapse, and in order to visualize it in a drawing for a catalogue in advance of the exhibition, I found it necessary to have a small model sewn out of canvas, which I sprayed with black enamel and set on a rough platform made from a Canadian Club whiskey carton. Later in the year, this model became the unlikely subject for the second edition done with Multiples, Inc. The sketch had the scale suitable for a multiple, but it was an extremely casual, intimate, and shabby object that seemed completely unreproducible. In its individuality, it was the very opposite of a multiple, a fact that I took as a challenge. Its softness would make each member of the edition individual.” Claes Oldenburg quoted in Claes Oldenburg: Multiples in Retrospect 1964 – 1990, p. 92