Turning $500 and a suitcase into art you will love
We ain’t from around here.
Immigrant, leader, wanderer, vagabond
Bring a dash of delightful eccentricity to your everyday life with “Whimsy on a Weathered Throne,” a sculpture that refuses to take itself too seriously while still looking like it could teach your living room a thing or two about style. Perched atop a rugged metal stool (think ‘industrial chic meets backyard philosopher’) this piece features a twisted rod supporting what might be a birdhouse, a signpost, or possibly a portal to another dimension (results may vary).
The chipped black-and-white finish gives it a lived-in look, like it’s seen a few thunderstorms and maybe a poetry slam or two. At the base, swirling metal flourishes add a touch of drama, as if the sculpture is saying, “Yes, I’m practical, but I also know how to party.”
Ideal for art enthusiasts, daydreamers, and anyone who appreciates the beauty of a well-placed swirl, “Whimsy on a Weathered Throne” is here to upgrade your surroundings, one quirky product at a time. Who knew a stool and a rod could be so inspiring? Answer: you did, and now everyone else can too.
The name is a pun and we are not sorry. Cacockphony mashes up cacophony and cock, because this thing looks like a rooster and sounds incredible when you tap it with a piece of metal. It is sculpture and instrument in one.
I welded it from steel, mostly bent rebar that has weathered into a warm rusty reddish brown. A single length rises off a heavy steel base plate in an S curve, then branches into loops that fan out like wings and a body of tight zig-zag bends. The head is the part that makes people grin: a flat piece of brushed steel cut into a jagged beak and a three-pointed comb, perched on a curled rebar neck. The welds are left visible on purpose, because the making is part of the story. Every bit of steel was salvaged, and there will never be another one exactly like it.
Then there is the sound. Strike it with a bit of metal and it rings out, bright and strange, so it works as a yard chime, a garden gong, or just a very odd doorbell for people who knock with a spoon. At 26 inches tall and 19 inches wide it holds a corner of a garden, a patio, an entryway, or a studio. It is for anyone who likes their art with a sense of humor and a sound to go with it: collectors of found-object and industrial art, gardeners, musicians, and chicken people everywhere.
One-of-a-kind rooster sculpture handmade from salvaged steel and rebar
Rings like a chime when struck with metal
Brushed-steel cut head with beak and three-point comb
Rusted steel finish with visible welds, built to live indoors or out
26 inches tall by 19 inches wide on a heavy steel base
Somewhere between a wading bird, a deer, and something that only exists in a dream, this is a creature that never made it onto the ark. I called it One of the Creatures God Forgot to Make because that is exactly what it looks like: a leftover sketch from creation, welded into being.
I built it from upcycled steel, joined at heavy riveted joints so the whole thing looks like it might shift its weight and take a step. The neck arches up to a bright copper collar, and set into that collar is a real forked antler that becomes the head, tan and curving and unmistakably alive against all that dark iron. Every material was salvaged, every weld is mine, and there will never be another one exactly like it.
Standing about a foot tall on its own steel base, it holds its own on a mantel, a bookshelf, an entry table, or a desk. It suits anyone drawn to the rustic and the strange: collectors of found-object and industrial art, lovers of the outdoors and antlers, and anyone who wants a conversation piece with a little myth in it. If you are shopping for the person who has everything, this is something they have never seen.
One-of-a-kind sculpture handmade from upcycled steel, copper, and real antler
Body forged from steel, joined at riveted joints
Bright copper collar holding a natural forked antler as the head
Welded to a flat steel base for freestanding display
About 20 inches tall and 19 inches across
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