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.
Elements Gallery garden now gong-enhanced.
Elegant, but surely a classic case of Gee, That’s Huge!
Very perceptive. The men in my family wanted to make it a foot taller…
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.
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.