That looks delicious - and it's almost lunchtime!
Here are a couple of things I've worked on recently; thanks to the generosity of my friend Rick Hartner, the proprietor & artist at Sitting Duck Studio
http://www.sittingduckstudio.com/. He lets me sit in & use his forge and well-appointed metal shop.
This is a piece (not complete in this photo) I helped him with for the Garden Show at the San Diego Botanic Garden; his idea was to build a Roadster out of rebar & other re-claimed materials as required by the show. He asked me to make the driver; just a few days before he had to load everything up and head to San Diego, he added a spectacular dog to the passenger seat, tongue waving in the breeze.
The hands & feet were the most fun to figure out; Rick suggested that shoes would be easier than feet, but since it's a city on the ocean I opted for flip-flops:
Last Friday, I spent some time plasma cutting shapes out of an old truck bumper we dug out of a sandbar as a part of a big community-wide creek cleanup. Of some ten tons of trash that Prescott Creeks volunteers pulled out of the creeks that day, about three tons (ie., all the cool metal bits) will be "upcycled" into art pieces, many of which will be sold at auction this Fall to raise money for the organization. I'm thinking of these as the wind-catching elements for an Alexander Calder-inspired mobile sculpture; don't look too close, as I really suck at free-hand plasma cutting:
Update: Rick just e-mailed me a photo of the sculpture as installed; I think it's supposed to be there for several months if you happen to be in San Diego.
