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Whimsical Steampunk brutalist sculpture or outdoor piece. Metal of bull by Bill Heise, American (1943-2011). Iron and mixed metal cow sculpture, signed \"HEISE\" on base.For more than 25 years, Bill Heise has been creating unusual clever and often very elegant pieces of re presentation al sculpture out of found metal. Bill salvages his primary palette from the fields and scrap yards of Vermont. Saw blades, plow disks, pitch forks. cultivator spring teeth... All these objects and more - once used, now abandoned-- are the forms and textures with which he creates.Each piece begins with a simple shape: a squiggle, a bulge, a contour. From this element springs Bill\'s vision of the whole.
Other parts are added. shovels, bolts, horse shoes, tines. More and more is welded together, untl finally and unmistakably, the finished creation stands alve. A heron poised
to drink. A cow ironically chewing its cud. Birds and flight. And possibly large tropical fish.

of man\'s machines.
Bill Heise was raised in a small town in the Finger Lakes region of New York, and drawn to art at an early age. He attended Buffalo State College Gow SUNY) and graduated in 1964 with a degree in art and art education.
After teaching briefly, and moving to rural Vermont near Burlington, he began sculpting with found metal in 1966- fust part-time, and soon there after as a successful working sculptor.Each of Bill\'s steel and iron sculptures is strong, sold and enduring. Because they\'re made from found objects, none is perfect ar no two are perfectly alike. Many are beautifully rusted-- not a sign of wear or deterioration but simply, üke age, a proud badge of time. Occasionally, pieces are given a boiled Unseed oil coating for a more uniform patina; but fill prefers to leave then exactly as he found them. And as for keep them outdoors, there\'s nothing to worry about. “A lot of this metal was in the ground for 40 years before I ever got ahold of it,” Bill says. “A little weather won’t hurt a bit.”
