'Gordy the Bird' sculpture

Years ago, I began forming the armature for a heron task lamp.  I reconsidered my lamp-making approach and put the armature aside, where it sat in my studio for half a decade.   

I recently pulled that nascent form out of my scrap pile and reconsidered what I might do with it.  “I’ll make a gourd,” I said to myself (out loud, because I always talk to myself out loud).

I cut strips of 16-gauge sheet of varying sizes and went to work welding those strips on, along with 1/4" round rod.  But try as I might to make a vegetable, a bird kept emerging.  

The sculptural result is 'Gordy the Bird', about 4 feet tall.  Perhaps a cross between a pelican and a heron, with a gourd shaped body...  but a good looking fellow all the same!