A, C, and friends in front of a junk art cricket
We found some fabulous junk art at the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics. Getting in to see it was about as hard as breaking into Fort Knox, but once inside the gated complex, we were happy with what we saw. We had hoped to see 6 pieces by Jim Powers, a native Oklahoman who created art from objects like those found in the scrap metal yard he once operated. To our dismay, the school was under construction and had moved many of his pieces to an undisclosed location (the lady with the lap dog at the check-in desk didn't tell us where they were). She tried to tell us that all of the junk art we saw were his designs, but I cannot corroborate that. None of them were labelled, but I did find a picture of one of them on the Internet.
"Cat Fish" by Jim Powers
A wind vane made from turn of the century fuel barrels,
one water press tank, a Volkswagon bumper, a plow disc,
and an oil field pipe.
A:
The junk art was so fascinating! It was really cool to see all the things people can make out of junk! I think that my favorite piece of junk art was the pieces of painted metal on a clothes line! It was awesome! I liked it because there were so many colors and different shapes on a line! We saw a lot of other art pieces, like a catfish, a cricket, and some other things that we have no clue what they are! I liked this this trip!
C:
A feather? An arrow?
C:
We got to see art that was made out of junk, but it didn't look like junk. We saw a catfish, a cricket, and metal things hanging from a string. The rest, I don't know. My favorite was the catfish because it didn't really look like just metal. The artist put strings on its mouth to make the catfish's whiskers. He gave it eyes.
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