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Ocotillo Sculpture with Wagon Wheel base
$1500
A plant indigenous to the Sonoran Desert and Chihuahuan Desert in the Southwestern United States, and northern Mexico. Ocotillo is not a true cactus. Welded 3/8" rebar.
Approx 7' tall, with flowers made from welding strips of expanded metal together and painting red. I made the wagon wheel of wood, it is approx 31/2 thick at the rim and 42 inches in diameter.
This Ocotillo is currently on dislpay at Stagecoach Village Shopping Center, located in Cave Creek at 7100 E. Cave Creek Rd. It is on the plaza near The Indigo Crow Restaurant.
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Mr Froggy
$45
Mr Froggy is made up from five horse shoes, with an extra long tongue for catching flys.
He is 7.5 inches tall and approximately 10 inches wide at his feet.
The Road Runner
$125
The Road Runner is the most commonly known bird in Arizona and is the perfect action figure to make from cut nails and 3/8" welded rebar.
20" tall.
Flower Pot
$125
Constructed with a large steel pipe flange with flowers made from reclaimed block fence reinforcement steel.
The piece is about 24 inches tall with an 8 inch base.
The Owl
$125
Thiis piece is made from flat steel and expanded metal. Composed of two pieces of steel, the brow is welded to the face plate. Expanded metal fills out the breast plate; touching up with a hand held grinder gives the piece texture. The Owl is approximatley 15 inches tall, by 13" wide, it can be wall hung or free standing. You will see it incorporated into a special project pictured in the Portfolio Section.
Railroad Spike Ocotillo
$3500
This project took me over a year to complete from planning to final
product. It combines my heritage of working on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, both as a switchman and "Gandy Dancer" (track maintenance & construction) during the 60's while attending college back in Wisconsin and my desire to weld things together like desert plants.
The Cactus Trio
$195 for the 3 piece set
The Cactus Trio does not need to be watered, and they never get messy fruit so common to their botanical counter parts. One is a series of small horse shoes welded together to look like a 3’ tall Saguaro Cactus. Horse shoes still have some of the nails from prior usage on horses and mules. The other two are flat steel cut out with a cutting torch, to look like Prickly Pear Cactus with three red fruit carved of wood. Coloring on these two pieces can be either 100% natural, which changes as the pieces age; or a light green patina sealed for color stablization. The threesome comes with each piece mounted in a small concrete base for easy arranging and planting. Should you wish additional single piecies they are $65.00 each.