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Lawrence Reynolds - Hays, Kansas - 1941-2013

Wood/metal sculptures

An imaginative artist with found or discarded materials, Lawrence Reynolds's work is usually an illustration of a text, either Biblical or from popular culture. Using discarded scraps of metal, he portrays a sprawling man tripped up by his own tongue with the title, "Man is judged by the transgressions of his lips." A chronic experimenter with many materials and media, Reynolds is most prolific in his production of unpainted carvings of human figures, made from recycled 2 x 4 lumber, and illustrating either common sayings or the tensions of human relationships.

Larry Richardson - Mulvane, Kansas

Golden Gate Bridge

Larry Richardson has had two great loves in his life, his wife Barbara and the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, CA. In 1994, Larry was given some cable from a neighbor who had torn down a wooden bridge 1/4 mile from the Richardson's.
His wife said, "You've got your material so build your bridge."  Larry's dad said, “Well, I'll help you."  The Kansas Golden Gate Bridge is 150' long, 8' wide, and 25' high, and took 11 years to complete. It crosses a small creek separating the largest part of his farm to a small piece of land. These two men used a Golden Gate postcard — not blueprints — as a reference. Larry calls it "comparison engineering." Materials include lots of recycled items: old wooden bridge towers, cables from an oil rig, suspender cables salvaged from an old Cessna aircraft, and 9.5 tons of hand-mixed concrete.