This Oklahoma City artist put his picker skills to good use by sculpting a ‘Trash Monster’

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – If trash had a historical past on this metropolis an writer may write entire chapters alongside the outdated ‘hubcap alley’ the place it as soon as crossed the Oklahoma River.

This is fertile floor for a lifelong picker and artist like Gabriel Friedman.

We can’t even go half a block with out discovering one thing that speaks to his sense of discovery.

Holding a rusty piece of metallic he discovered within the gutter, Friedman imagines, “that could have been on an old race car.”

“I like the weight of things that have ‘old energy’,” he continues.

So Gabriel was the proper selection for an artwork set up designed to present the impression discarded trash has on our lives.

“It needed to be big to get peoples’ attention,” he says, “and it needed to be not disgusting.”

Over a number of months, crews organized by Keep Oklahoma City Beautiful picked up trash all around the park and this a part of city.

“A lot of people come and see their own trash,” smiles Friedman.

Friedman added a few of his personal touches and constructed a large trash monster out of it.

He says, “I love the idea that a lot of the stuff here came from all over the world.”

His sculpture does have a large face on one aspect, however it’s simple to get misplaced within the particulars.

“People tell me it looks like some of the ‘Eye Spy’ books.”

There are toys mounted right here, items of garden furnishings, and occasional additions or subtractions.

Gabriel grabs a plastic bowling pin and tugs, “You can tell people have already tried ripping these off, but that’s kind of part of the fun.”

It is a trash monster, however not a scary one.

Gabriel went for shade and texture.

He left his massive head hole. Friedman stated he would possibly need to use that area.

“I thought about putting a nice little chair in here and reading, and sketching new ideas.”

As a everlasting fixture in Scissortail Park and a part of the altering material of downtown, it’s essentially the most nice reminder of certainly one of our most vital challenges, to handle this particular place.

For extra information on the Friedman’s sculpture or Scissortail Park, go to the Scissortail Park website.