John Deer Song

What do you get when you play a country song backwards?
           You get your horse back, your girl back, and your dog back.

Country music is more than what was it has crossed borders and changed times. This piece is two times the size of an acoustic guitar. Built for admiration of how far country music has come and influenced a long lived lifestyle.

The title is direct form the parts that created this piece. The are all off of a John Deer tractor or baler. Down to the nuts and bolts and baler springs.

Swirls of Time

Long hours and soar joints leave the ladies desiring the comfort of the bath. A place where peace falls over the mind and the muscles melt into the water. This bear-claw bathtub is a symbolic icon of how the pricks of the day twist into the swirling water wrapped around the body.

The details of even the faucet create movement perfect for any garden sculpture.

Size Matters

Standing over five feet tall, this boot brings back the meaning that size matters, but deeper then that, it is an iconic symbol of the cowboy. Spurs are worn not for looks, but for working a horse through long hard days, brush they don't want to go through, creeks they aren't in the mood to cross, and hours that become long and demanding. Slick heals wears the cowboy thin. Horses get days off cowboys don't.

Picture taken at County Fair "Size Matters" received best of show.

The spur is in full motion, the rowel spins and the buckle tightens the spur strap,

which is a swather chain.

Detail is the key to developing the artistic side of these western pieces. Here horse shoe nails are welded together then sewn into the chicken wire.

Long Day in the Saddle

Piecing it together.

Developing concepts of new out of old sometimes stem from unique situations. This saddle the response to a cowboy coming to the dinner table and asking, "What's with the chicken?" I then took two opposites and combined them into one sculpture.

The intense details of the barbwire designs on top of the chicken wire give a texture that screams out to the viewer how rough and long days on the range can be. Conchos are made of fence staples and rusted by nature, making the age old metal in bright orange sienna glow. 

This piece won the people's choice at the Black Canyon Art Show this June 2011.