Local sculptor turns scrap metal into one-of-a-kind art
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By: Galen Culver/KFOR
Stephens County, Okla. (KFOR) — Ammunition and the casualties of Steve Southerland’s internal, artistic war fight for space on his rural acreage.
“Oh man,” he smiles. “10-foot deep I’m livin’ it. Always bills in the mailbox livin’ it. Always ¾ tank empty livin’ it.”
He’s always been pretty good at taking scrap metal and making things no one else could possibly see.
“I get the idea in my head and I just build it.”
A few days before we got there, he’d just finished an 8-foot-tall sculpture, a humanoid dragonfly perched atop a long cattail.
We remarked, “There’s something in you that just keeps creating.”
Southerland responds, “Oh man. I can’t stop!”
There are projects like that hiding in the grass all around his house, hard to move, hard to sell. He does better with hat bands and painted feathers.
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