ARTCYCLE 2012 - PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD:
"The Birdhouse Bike" SOLD
ArtCycle promotes regional artists in the Carolina's. Sculptures utilize recycled bicycle parts and are on display in Spartanburg’s downtown area April to October. ArtCycle is a collaboration between the City of Spartanburg, Hub-Bub, Artists Guild of Spartanburg and Partners for Active Living. This piece has been selected for display in the 2012 ArtCycle Contest.
An Online Auction to benefit ArtCycle will start in September!
CYCLEART WALKING TOUR COMMENT - 2012
“The Birdhouse Bike” is a one bedroom bungalow with one bath and two dining areas. It rents for a song! This structure will stand out beautifully in your well appointed vegetable or flower garden.
I hope this structure brings joy to your heart as you look at it. Here is
SOLD nature interacting with art in the dance of cheerful harmony!
An Online Auction to benefit ArtCycle will start in September!
CYCLEART WALKING TOUR COMMENT - 2012
“The Birdhouse Bike” is a one bedroom bungalow with one bath and two dining areas. It rents for a song! This structure will stand out beautifully in your well appointed vegetable or flower garden.
I hope this structure brings joy to your heart as you look at it. Here is
SOLD nature interacting with art in the dance of cheerful harmony!
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Partners for Active Living
226 South Spring Street Spartanburg, SC 29306 Office Phone: 864.598.9638 The office will have head sets available for the walking tours. |
 The bicycle was pulled from Lake Wylie. You may view its original condition by clicking on the photo above. Click the photos in the following columns and see how it was transformed by being cut, welded, and painted into its present form.
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    All you see here are discarded materials. The bicycle tire is actually a piece of flex conduit retrieved from a dumpster.
(More photos illustrating the development of the flex conduit to a simulated bicycle tire may be viewed in the Birdhouse Bike Photo Galary.) (CLICK PICTURE TO ENLARGE) |
    SOLDThe birdhouse wood was scrap lumber from a renovated house; the colorful plastic - fashioned from plastic bottles - and over 800 bottle caps make up the roof. The birdhouse siding was fashioned from rubber bicycle tires; the perch is from an inner tube valve stem.
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    SOLDMy artwork is made to interact with nature. Imagine a songbird having lunch or taking a dip in one of the birdbath oases provided by the inverted bicycle seat, and the stylish bicycle fender-bath over the rear wheel, maybe a hummingbird is finding nectar from the refurbished water bottle and holder supplying nourishment through bicycle sprocket flowers mounted on hand brake grips.
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