New Sculpture From Old Metal

Bit of Earth Farm sculpture, repurposed metal sculpture, junk sculpture,

Repurposed metal sculpture from Bit of Earth Farm.

Mark and Kirby just finished this piece, a six-foot-something tall gong repurposed from all sorts of metal. Here’s how it’s done.

materials:

1941 oxygen canister

grapeshot cannonball

farm implement disc

leftover steel gas line

steel rod

tow hook

lifting hook

method:

Apply welding equipment. Mix in vast amounts of effort, time, and creativity. Add sweat.

Place in garden. Hit gong with cannonball as desired.

We’re grateful that our friends (and amazing artists) Steve and Debra Bures will be offering the piece for sale starting this weekend as they celebrate Elements Gallery‘s 25th year anniversary. You’ll want to visit the charming town of Peninsula as well as their enticing gallery. While you’re there, give the gong a hearty cannon ball thwack!

Here’s the gong in place, in front of their gallery.

Bit of Earth Farm, Elements Gallery, repurposed metal art,

Elements Gallery garden now gong-enhanced.

About Laura Grace Weldon

Laura Grace Weldon is a writer and editor, perhaps due to an English professor's scathing denunciation of her writing as "curious verbiage." She's the author of "Free Range Learning," a handbook of natural learning and "Tending," a poetry collection. (lauragraceweldon.com) She's working on her next book, "Subversive Cooking" (subversivecooking.com). She lives on Bit of Earth Farm where she is a barely useful farm wench. Although she has deadlines to meet she often wanders from the computer to preach hope, snort with laughter, cook subversively, talk to chickens and cows, discuss life’s deeper meaning with her surprisingly tolerant offspring, sing to bees, hide in books, walk dogs, concoct tinctures, watch foreign films, and make messy art.

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4 Responses to New Sculpture From Old Metal

katechiconi says:

June 4, 2014 at 12:47 pm

Elegant, but surely a classic case of Gee, That’s Huge!

- Laura Grace Weldon says:
  
  June 4, 2014 at 1:03 pm
  
  Very perceptive. The men in my family wanted to make it a foot taller…
  
Bill says:

June 10, 2014 at 10:20 am

Wonderful, beautiful, creative. It reminds me of the dinner bells that used to be common on farms here. Except it’s a cannonball gong instead of a bell. :) I envy your talent.

- Laura Grace Weldon says:
  
  June 10, 2014 at 12:30 pm
  
  Oh, we have a dinner bell. We used to ring it to get the kids in from the woods. Now they’re older and a text will do.