Blake McFarantie, contemporary sculpture artist. Creative sculptures, using used tires, show the images of animals and people, realistic and three-dimensional, with strong and elastic works, showing a different style.
Traditional sculpture creation, in the selection of materials is mostly metal, wood or stone. A small number of works use other materials such as bones. Blake's work, which incorporates used tires into his creative materials, is even more refreshing through his processing to show muscular works.
First, he cracked the tires to form strips of material. There are rubber strips with steel wire, some without steel wire, and there are different specifications for thickness, width and narrowness. Second, start preparing the glue for bonding and the steel nails for joining. When he finally began to create, he fixed all the materials, most of which had been connected in the form of twists. The works created in this way have a three-dimensional sense and a full sense of dynamics.
Most of Blake's creations use hundreds of tires, and it takes more than ten days just to prepare the materials. Make full use of waste materials, and the shapes and images displayed are breathtaking.
His works are mainly based on animal and human figures. Of course, A small number of outdoor flower arrangement ornaments and other works were also created with tires, but the number was very small. The sculptures created with tires attract people's attention. That was when he began to engage in sculpture, and suddenly felt that the direct use of materials to create works could not reflect the concept of environmental protection, and after searching for many materials, he focused on the waste tires.
Waste tires are a headache for people, and creating works with this material not only reduces pollution, but also beautifies the environment. With this aim, he began to create works on tires. It was such an idea that he managed to gain recognition. The artwork spliced out by the tires impressed the public.