Artist Turns Nuts, Bolts And Scrap Metal Into Life-Sized Animal Sculptures

While environmentalists have called on the world to reuse and recycle, artist Brian Mock has taken this concept to a whole new level by creating works of art made of scrap metal. Based in the suburb of Portland, Oregon, Mock taught himself how to weld and began to experiment with metal sculptures in the late 1990s.

Mock has been exposed to various art media since he was a child, but it was not until the 1990s that he discovered his passion for upcycling art. He trained himself in welding so that he could see his concept art as metal sculptures.