dribble what you ’re doing — this is more significant . Oregon sculptorJud Turnerhas work up a aliveness - sized model of a Columbia gigantic skeleton , he ’s done it with 95 % recycled material ( mostly old farming equipment and agricultural tools ) , and it ’s probably the most jaw - droppingly bad - ass matter I ’ve ever lay my eyes on .
I ’m sorry , did you miss that ? Gigantic , metallic element mammoth frame . Farm equipment . Bad - stern . You really postulate to see this thing .
Turner is all about using incur object , welded blade , and repurposed consumer items in his sculptures . His choice of spiritualist makes for some absolutelymind - blowing gathering piece , which are definitely worth checking out , but allow ’s cut to the Salmon Portland Chase : you ’re here for the mammoth .
According to Turner , he was commissioned to make the weighing machine manikin for theMoses Lake Museum and Art Centerin Washington state .
“ In 1950 , a farmer found parts of a Columbia mammoth while digging an irrigation ditch , so this sculpture ties those two elements together , ” Turner told boingboing . He bear on :
Part of the challenge in build it in my studio apartment in Eugene , OR was that I had to make it in a way that it could be taken apart , and re - assembled without any extra welding . Just read it down was one of the scarey operations I ’ve ever guarantee in the studio apartment ( over a gross ton of sharp , rust-brown steel 15 feet in the air had to be lour with manual genie - lifts . )
Color us impressed . you may check outmore picture of Turner ’s marvellous metallic element mammoth — along withan awesome photographic report of the construction process — onhis web site .
[ Spotted onboingboing ]
exposure byTodd Coopervia Jud Turner
prospect from above of the Mammoth and Turner in his studio .
View from below the headspring .
The carving at the Museum in Moses Lake , WA .
Detail of the Columbia Mammoth front metrical foot .
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