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Hey, Columbia: Look What I Made With Your Garbage!

7/1/2016

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I've been working on my Tyrannosaurus rex sculpture as I've had opportunities over the last couple of months. I keep thinking "hey, it's almost done." And then I work on it for a few more hours and it still doesn't seem "done." Eventually I'll reach some threshold and just call it good and move on. I'm not quite there yet, but I'm getting pretty close.

Here are some photos from today:
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In case you can't tell, I'm pretty happy with the way this is turning out. And I wanted to say "thank you," Columbia, for putting so much usable scrap metal out on the curb.

Although I brought a lot of the scrap I used to make this thing with me from Michigan (I've been in town for less than a year), I couldn't have built my Tyrannosaurus rex without your discarded bed frames, lawn furniture, weed trimmers, cooling racks, bicycles, lamps, pots and pans, candle holders, and plant stands. I had to buy some rebar (for the base) and a few other odds and ends, but mostly Columbia provided the materials.

As this sculpture nears completion, I'm thinking about my next project. I have a lot of sentimental attachment to most of things I've made so far, and I have yet to make anything to sell. This was a big project, though, and a lot of my "sentimental scrap" (yes, there is such a thing) is gone. As my collection of materials becomes more and more the result of scavenging from Columbia's bountiful curb piles, I think it will be easier and easier to contemplate making something to sell.  Anyone out there in the Columbia area interested in a T rex for the garden? Or a giant rooster? Let me know and we'll see what we can do.

I'm not sure how I would price something like this: although most of the materials were free, I did put in a lot of blood, sweat, and tears (literally) and a significant amount of time. And there are costs associated with expendable supplies (welding wire, metal cutting disks, drill bits, etc.). This one's not for sale, anyway, but maybe the next one will be.
16 Comments
Ph
7/1/2016 03:18:04 pm

I love the 4th picture, by far the best.
Any plans on doing something with the base, or just let that overgrow with grass on it's place?

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Andy White
7/1/2016 03:51:43 pm

The base is just for stability, so my plan is to dig out a section of the yard the size of that circle, out the dinosaur in, and have plants around it.

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Peter Geuzen
7/1/2016 06:27:16 pm

PLANTS?!?! Piles of bones man! Come on! Go full T-Rex diorama with kills piled up. Like you don't have boxes of random bones at school you can pilfer.

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Andy White
7/1/2016 07:00:53 pm

I first read that as "kids piled up."

Uncle Ron
7/1/2016 05:32:19 pm

Assemblage in the extreme! You're a man after my own heart; although my work is much smaller and goes in an entirely different direction.

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Best Road Bikes link
2/18/2020 12:33:49 am

Most brands have a trail bike version. You can find it both as rigid (front suspension) and double suspension.

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Jeanna
7/1/2016 08:42:45 pm

Awesome. What an amazing passion.

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Audrey Jones
7/2/2016 07:51:15 am

brilliant! Would love a creation installed in the Green Quad gardens @ USC!

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Deb McD.
7/2/2016 12:09:20 pm

I've been following your projects on FB and love what you're doing with curb pickings other cast offs.
Art , yes. Recycling, yes. Creativity, yes.
Bravo!

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Mogimbo link
7/3/2016 04:10:08 am

Outstanding!

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Mary Sturgill
7/3/2016 05:34:43 am

Hi Andy, I'm Mary Sturgill with WLTX. And I love what you are doing. If you would do it with me, I'd love to do a story on you and your work. Of course I would have to pitch it to the powers that be for approval but I wanted to reach out to you first.

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Andy White
7/3/2016 06:05:00 am

Sure, Mary! Send me an email at aawhite@mailbox.sc.edu.

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mary
7/5/2016 01:15:59 pm

I sent you an email.

Killbuck
7/4/2016 09:48:11 pm

Fabulous!!!

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sherrill owens
7/13/2016 07:44:41 am

Its all so clever!..didn't see the WLTX video yet. Send me an email if u have any mini expos at your studio or home. Also would love some outside art/sculptures!

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trash can with lock lid link
5/13/2020 03:11:31 pm

good

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