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Av a sculptor. Cur! Foiu a works mainly in iron anil steel, using scrap metal to i rente all sorts of artistic u orks with his deft use of a welding torch.place, but it is never isolated. Carl related. It’s fun—and you meet a lot of people you would otherwise never get to see.Visitors must be relied upon to bring in a touch of the outside. because at Fort Davis the nearest movie house is 10 miles away and the nearest shopping center is nearly 200 miles across the West Texas flatlaiuls in the Odessa-Midland area. Range fire’s provide the bulk of the summertime excitement.In spite of the isolation, Carl and Barbara, and daughter Wendy, pack their little sports car and head for Oklahoma to the annual Osage tribal celebration. Carl and W endy participate in the dances and other celebrations so wholeheartedly that Carl shaves practically his whole head for the occasion. Such festivities have been a part of Osage tradition since before the white man set foot on the continent.As a sculptor. Carl works mainly in iron and steel, and he does some painting.Manv of his steel works—made from scrap metal th.it went into the construction of the NASA-supported 107-inch telescope—decorate thelong house and the Poncas' comfortable apartment.'But when you are working on it. sculpture moves very slowly.” lie pointed out. I have to push these ideas around on paper before tackling the raw steel with a welding torch. It's really an assembly process.Putting the ideas on paper takes in more than the layman can fathom. Lugging a stack of about 20 notebooks and sketch pads, Carl thumbed through hundreds of proposed and some completed pieces. These masses of steel range in si/e from two or three feet high to monstrous structures reaching 40 and 50 feet into the air and weighing hundreds of pounds!Some (lav in the not too distant future. Carl will collect his noto-Ilooks, don the welder’s garb and begin producing the fluid, mechanical forms of iron anti steel. In the meantime, life at UT McDonald offers him a chance to take stock of what he plans.'This has been a good place for Barbara and me. because we are out of the mainstream of art. Carl said. W’e tan think about what we are doing.”
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Big Spring Herald
Big Spring, Texas, US
Sun, Oct 22, 1972
Page 86
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