Hornet Sculpture
This is something I made with my minimal welding skills in 2004. It is the largest piece I have made, standing at around 7 feet tall.
I came up with the concept when I found the large antenna, now the stinger, at a junk yard. The components are mainly scrap that I found around the shop, a freon tank, and a bicycle seat.
The frame from the bicycle seat made for a nice pivoting head.
I used a cross section of a girder for the base. It is quite sturdy, without the bulk.
The added bonus to this project, is that inside this giant metal hornet, a nest of wasps reside. They emerge from what I can only (tastefully) describe as a birthing canal at the base of the abdomen. So now the hornet sculpture is consistantly birthing wasps at all hours of the day.
Eric Shepard
September 24th, 2006 at 10:39 am
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June 28th, 2008 at 9:50 am
this is awesome! love the whole bee living inside it thing