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Meditative Llama
Published: 2008-08-25 14:30:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 7868; Favourites: 297; Downloads: 108
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Over one hundred and fifty steel "flower" shapes where cut by hand and welded together to create this elegant sculpture. It has the calm presence of a seated Buddha in animal form.Related content
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thanks. I have done some silver work, but too expensive. I use mostly steel and stainless.
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Your gallery is one of the coolest that I have looked at, everything is so impressive!
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Thanks for the insightful comments. I appreciate it.
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I just really love this. I totally get the Buddha vibe. Awesome!
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Love is good. And is just sold, so that is good too! Thanks for the positive vibes. I like your work also, very interesting and original.
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Oooo great job on this! 8D it looks awesome!
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you're very welcome! 8D 
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Hmm...three loves, that is good! Thanks
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Wow. That's both amusing and very creative. Not to mention well-made. I like it very much.
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Oh wow! This is absolutely gorgeous. I was looking through the DDs (congrats on that, by the way, you definitely deserve it!!) and thought, "Hey! That looks like a LLAMA. oΟo" I'm very glad I clicked the link. This is amazing craftsmanship, and I can't even begin to think about how long it took to make. Great job!!
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Thank you! I appreciate the positive comments.
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You're very welcome! Keep up the great work!!
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Brilliant! almost reminds me of the "bird's nest" but not as random. 1000 years from now, this piece will be reveared as an ancient and important relic, similiar to that of egyptian articfacts. ^^
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Out of the over 500 comments I received about this piece, yours was the most insightful and thought provoking. You are an original thinker. Thank you!
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^^ On a more profound note, the artistic merit of the piece, to me, is that the 3 dimensional Llama exists as space within the interwoven 2 dimensional surfaces. The Llama is not the metal flowers (which exist independently as crafted pieces in their own right). The Llama is there but, ironicaly, it is also not there! The theory therefore is, can actual space be the subject of art? In this case, the answer is yes.
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Right on! Will you write comments for more of my work? You are the man!
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I actually commented on the Ostrich, hehe, but i kinda said "i like the startled face" haha ^^, and i did go through your other works, but then the lunch bell rang and i had to eat. But now i'm back.
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Markeee,
I read your other two replies with relish. There is a need for putting image concepts into words so people lacking their own powers of interpretation can understand what the artist is doing - this you do astoundingly well. Spacial nothingness is perfect. I have been searching for words to compliment this new technique to no avail until you came along. Thank you for your time and attention.
Here is something a critic in NYC wrote;
ANIMALS
Hunting through lifeβs debris, Donald reclaims outcast chunks of society to manipulate them, twist them, burn them and reanimate them into creatures that are more authentic than the found objects were themselves. He births animals that possess a haltingly ethereal feel, and we have an uncanny sense that the creatures are indeed studying us more intently than we are studying them. Through the webbed and jagged metal that is the animalβs belly, we can view the objects within them, betraying our tendency to ignore what is in front of us every day.
It's OK, but I would like to have something that I can use for the press and galleries etc, that really says something significant about the work and technique.
Can we correspond at livesteel@gmail.com? Easier for me.
Don
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Are you kidding me? yeah, sure, i'll send you an email. ^^
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Well, what is the one thing?
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The llama of joy silly. he's way over thar =>
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Wonderful work, very nice shapes & structure, and indeed, very calming.
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thank you for your thoughtful comments. Like your site and that pic of you, wow.
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llama=win
let alone the amazing metalwork skills it took to make it. =]
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i absolutely love this -- the shape is so flawlessly serene and peaceful, just perfect~ i love how the light hits the flower shapes, it gives and irredescent glow
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what a thoughtful critique, thank you
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quite exquisite, definitely calm and peaceful looking
(is it wrong that i just want to quote 'emperor's new groove' ?? lol)
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Thanks. What hot dusty desert do you live in? I'm in Taos.
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new mexico 
i've learned to appreciate the desert for its own beauty, but its still hard cause i'm from a very green and rainy place!
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Here the desert is verdant and blooming with life, so much rain, it's a jungle
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That is quite awesome.Fantastic.Amazing.
Awemaztastic.
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Thank you for making such awesome art.
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this is amazing, such beautiful and skillful art!
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