Sculpture

We're off to Canberra tomorrow for Max's sixth - birthday,  not symphony. And we were scheduled to take down Emily's birthday present too - her's is on 14th July. However, the car is getting mighty full right now with an added passenger (+ luggage) and requests to empty our house of memorabilia for the kids. So the sculpture has to remain with us for the moment and Emily can look at the photos pasted here to see if she wants it.

The scuplture, if one can call it that, is scraps of discarded metal welded together in the shape of a flying monster. The component parts include horse-shoes, nuts and bolts, steel mesh, bits of engine blocks, and so on. The guy who created this piece - and many other different concoctions - told me he was a wood-worker until he had the idea of recycling metal scrap and now sells lots of his creations in people's markets around the region. When we bought this item about 3 weeks ago, he was doing a roaring trade even though the items are very heavy and quite expensive.

This piece grabbed us as something fantastic that Emily would like for her garden ... until we decided it would be fantastic for ours instead. However, Emily has first choice! It least it's an original idea and, if Emily takes it, we can go out a buy another

AS.