Old motors, gears, an ancient lawn mower and other scrap metal fill the shelves and cover the floor of Dan King's blacksmith shop. To the untrained eye, it's junk. To King, it's the beginning of art.
Nov. 9—MOSES LAKE — The organizers of the scrap metal art competition work to make it a challenge. That was the lesson of the oxygen tank that attracted the attention of the team from Pasco. The ...
The difference between dreaming, on one hand, and actualising and executing what you dream, on the other, is what scrap metal artist Kioko Mwitiki describes as art. Different from the statues that we ...
Wayne Hill poses for a photo in front of his shop in Evergreen on Wednesday. (Mackenzie Reiss/Daily Inter Lake) A bird sculpture is suspended in Wayne Hill’s workshop where he welds found metal pieces ...
Judy Hagen can't get her mother to stop working. Hazel Keen, 94, has been staying with Hagen and her husband, Lou, at their Long Neck home. But their home isn't just a house; in the back, it's an art ...
There’s no such thing as bad or good subject, only bad and good artist, so the saying goes. Promising artist Lucky Salayog is living proof to that as he recreates metal scraps and other junk materials ...
Parts of a machine or an automobile that are damaged or are not being used need not be thrown out. In skilled hands, they can be turned into works of wonderful art. Asian Machine Tool Exhibition ...
Art made out of recycled scrap metal is nothing new to Kenya. We have a multitude of so-called ‘junk artists’, many of whom are not known locally, like Alex Wainaina whose ‘junk art’ statues are ...
Dennis Muraguri has been fascinated with matatus from an early age, ever since an uncle drew one for him, inspiring the little boy to start drawing ones of his own. His family home in Naivasha was ...
Celebrating the beauty of Blackness and protesting “environmental decadence” for a cleaner, waste-free future: that’s the vision of award-winning Nigerian metal sculptor and visual artist Dotun ...