After amassing a large number of completed sculpture, I began to run out of room to store the art. There were several pieces that were lined up in my backyard collecting dust and spiderwebs. As I was walking to take out the trash, I noticed that there were little parallel lines running around the interior holes in a particular sculpture. I could not fathom who would do such a thing to my art. Over the course of several weeks I noticed that there were more and more of these lines completely covering my sculpture. I was mad and looked to anyone that I could blame. And then one day sitting at breakfast, I noticed that a squirrel was sitting in the sculpture sharpening his teeth on the metal. My girlfriend at the time commented, “Well, at least the squirrels like your art.” From that point on, I would refer to my creations as “Art That Squirrels Like.”
Sculpture
And then one day I decided to take my art into a third dimension. I had always loved the permanence of metal, so I took a creative welding course. After a little experimentation I knew that metal was the medium upon which I would focus. I was now a sculptor. Peruse a selection of my sculpture […]
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Although primarily a sculptor, my first artistic expression came in the form of painting. Reared by an art major, a paintbrush was placed in my hand at an early age. Proficiency was developed through my junior high and high school years in the form of watercolor. After a long hiatus, I picked painting back up […]
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This text is where I will enter my bio if I ever get around to it. -Mike Cook Tucson, Arizona mike@artthatsquirrelslike.com
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