Catching Wings ii"
This sculpture symbolizes the confidence and bravery it takes to catch your wings and fly farther and faster than you ever thought you could!
16" x 24" mixed media sculpture. Textured leather, wood board, and a skeleton.
Award: Kissimmee Sculpture Experience People’s Choice 2017-2018
The friend we never met named Kat (aka Katharine Autrey), used to love to ride her father's horse named Cricket. This sculpture was made in the Kissimmee Autrey family's honor and will live at Kapp and Kappy B&B (NFS). Kapp and Kappy is named for our last name, plus Katharine Autrey's nickname "Kappy".
Also, inside of Cricket is an homage to a #KissimmeeRocks rock named "Boo" - "Boo" first made his appearance in Grissom park. and so Boo was immortalized inside Cricket in metal form. Take a peek in the center of Cricket's tummy and you will see Boo. Boo is also immortalized on Flow-ery Bull in totally obvious form since this subtle placement of Boo has thus far gone undetected.
Dimensions: 7' high, 10' long, base is 18" x 18"
Materials: rebar, sheet metal, pencil rod, wire, scraps
Date: 2017
Shows: 2017-2018 Kissimmee Sculpture Experience
Baile Flamenco de los Muertos
Dance your best dance!
Materials: Sheet metal, fishing floats, pencil rod
Dimensions: 5’ x 5’ x 8’
The tattoo garden includes sculptures that people can pose with and either have their photos taken or make selfies.
These two butterflies are some small “doodles” made of extra stuff we had around the Art In Motion shop - created on December 25, 2019. The “hidden Mickey” wings were completely accidental but strangely prophetic.
Fire ants make fire, so this is their home. Curly leg ants and straight legged ants are in a battle for the queen in the nest on this sculpture.
Dimensions: 10 ft x 8 ft. Base is 5 ft x 7 ft
Materials: rebar, sheet metal, metal ball bearings
Date: Started in 2015, Finished in 2017
Shows: 2017-2018 Kissimmee Sculpture Experience
One day, Dorky Storky hatched from a pile of old parts and partial other sculptures. He’s Dorky because he has two heads and all the wrong legs. Made this little guy for fun and donated him to the Kissimmee Main Street organization. He now lives in the garden there.
Dimensions: 4 ft x 2 ft x 1 ft
Materials: Rebar, bomb parts, leftovers, paperweights
Shows: 2016-2017 Kissimmee Sculpture Experience
When red and blue flaming hearts unite, they create a productive, peaceful purple hand that hammers out successful solutions for all.
Dimensions: 3 ft high x 2 ft wide x 1.5 ft deep
Materials: sheet metal scraps, auto parts, metal rod
Date: 2017
Shows: 2017-2018 Kissimmee Sculpture Experience
The Flow-ery Bull was an experiment in deliberately achieving flow. I thought I knew how to do it, and with Flow-ery Bull I proved it to myself. Listening to alternative rock is the background, staying focused, and working fast. Usually it takes me two months of Sundays to make a big sculpture, but I made this one in a week. It was made by special request for the new sculpture base by the SunRail train. My friends from #HistoricDowntownKissimmee #LiveWorkPlayDTK are all over this sculpture:
Wine Glass - John Siudut / Vintage Vino, Rocking Chair - Jeremy Lanier / Lanier's Historic Downtown Marketplace, Waffle - Christopher Jon-Andrew May / Waffle Foundry, Ella - Lori Eisenstadt Deleon / Picking Adventures (Ella is the cutest Shih Tzu you will ever meet), Bass Fish and Critters - Lake Toho, Samba Dancer - Jackie Espinosa / Chandeliers, Kissimmee Diner, Pizza - Broadway Pizza, Lewis Music, Makinson's Hardware, and more! Boo - Boo is a #KissimmeeRocks rock first spotted at Grissom Park. Boo is also located inside Cricket the Sugar Horse.
Dimensions: Big
Date: December 2017
Materials: Sheet metal, pencil rod, wire
This is just a stream of consciousness sculpture made to clean up spare parts and things that were sitting around the shop. I like making birds out of pliers, so there are three birds on this sculpture. There is also a little man that the birds are flying around. There is no known meaning to this sculpture - it was just made for fun.
Dimensions: 29" x 19" x 18"
Medium: Metal art, tools, rebar, acrylic paint
Date: 2017
These are some of my sculptures that live around the house and garden at Kapp and Kappy B&B. This gallery includes the lobster in my front garden, my guard armadillos (lions just do not fit my Texas style), a hedgehog named "Buford" , his girlfriend "Beatrice", a good luck charm named Azabache, and Azabache himself (a one eared dog), some of my sheet metal palm trees, and other miscellaneous trellises that help hold up my butterfly plants.
These photos are of some of my hand-tooled leather artwork and motorcycle seats.
Camp Ohana is an Osceola County Florida Organization that helps children. One of their projects is to create a little library for the kids at one of the motels on US 192 that houses kids and families. The hope is that the messages on this box, along with the books inside the box will improve at least one life
The key question posed by the library box is “WHOOO do you want to BE?” - Knowing the answer to that question can help guide all of a person’s life choices - and lead to the results that someone wants to have in life. Other concepts, such as “follow your heart”, “teamwork” and more are also depicted on the box.
The robot garden in the biker backyard is a special place where the motorcycle shop fairies help all of the mechanics build motorcycles and Tuk Tuks. When they get tired of helping mechanics and want to wander and grow up, then it is time for them to earn their wings. They just have to climb the exhaust pipe to the branches of the tool tree, and then when they get to the top, they earn their wings and fly away and visit all the other sculptures in downtown Kissimmee. This sculpture lives in the garden at Kapp and Kappy B&B.
Year: 2014
Materials: Threaded Rod, washers, tools, springs, exhaust pipes, etc
Shows: 2014-2015 Kissimmee Sculpture Experience (Darlington)
Before I knew how to weld, I was exploring shaping leather. The "Not so grim reaper" is using his butterfly net to capture butterflies made of pottery beads. The pottery beads on here were made (circa 1980's) by my mother, Linda Genet in Austin, TX.
Dimensions: 33" x 28" x 6"
Medium: Leather, pottery beads, fabric
Year Created: 2015
Inspired by: Not So Grim Reaper 1
Rainbow Angel guards all creative life forces. She wants us to BE ourselves to the fullest as long as we shall live. She is also a tribute to the victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting
Dimensions: 9.5 ft x 42" round. Base is 15" round
Materials: rebar, old tools, glass balls, farm implements, pencil rod and sheet metal
Shows: 2016-2017 Kissimmee Sculpture Experience (Broadway Plaza), 2017-2018 Kissimmee Sculpture Experience (Police Station)
When I made Sugar Dolphin, the original design had a bunch of crazy starfish on it. However, once the base was made of confetti, I nixed the starfish. It was just too much stuff going on in one sculpture. So..at the same time, I was making a plant that was going to represent a Chicago Hot Dog for a hot dog store on US 192. I wanted someone to see my sculptures on a busy road. Unfortunately, the hot dog place went out of business. So then I took the starfish, and put them on the sculpture with the tomato from the hot dog in a tornado pattern - so "Starmato" was born
Starmato lives in the garden at Kapp and Kappy B&B
Dimensions: 5 ft x 5 ft x 4 ft
Date: 2015
Materials: All kinds of leftovers, plus rebar
Shows: 2015-2016 Kissimmee Sculpture Experience (Broadway Pizza)
Sugar Dolphin leaps for joy over a sea of confetti. This sculpture now lives in the retention pond at Kapp and Kappy B&B.
Dimensions: 8 ft x 8 ft x 8 ft
Date: 2015
Trying a new style on for size - this is called "Talky Lips" and was inspired by a makeup artist I know. It moves in the wind, so the lips talk.
Date: 2017
Materials: Galvanized rings
Dimensions: 5 ft x 3 ft x 2 ft
When we started Art In Motion, I started creating leather art - mostly for motorcycle seats, but then I also made artwork. I exhibited several times at the Osceola Art Festival, however, didn't sell a darn thing except for a little leather tray. What a waste of sitting in a booth. But a strange thing happened in the second show when I had brought the robots I was making out of take-off motorcycle parts to the art show as booth props. The judges wanted to judge the robots, but all I had for judging was the leather art. I got the message - gave up on the leather as a commercial venture and started with sculpture. The first one was called "Motorcycle Shop Fairy" - The robot garden is now in two locations - at Art In Motion LLC Custom Motorcycles and also at Kapp and Kappy B&B.
Waffleawfulopps and Merbunny emerged from my dreams & flow state. They are being realized into physical form now in various media.
Waffleawfulopps - Trademark S/N 97517272
Merbunny - Trademark S/N 98728268
Wings of Love is a butterfly with lower wings of hibiscus, holly and leaves. The upper wings represent shiny fire.
Dimensions: 30" x 15" x 10"
Medium: Metal, Glass
Date: February 3, 2018
