Thursday, July 22, 2010

Wolfdog copyright 2001 by Dave Putnam


Crossing a wolf and a dog is not a good idea. The result is a powerful animal that is not afraid of people (like a dog) and has a wolf's sense of pack hierarchy; which is to say the wolfdog may consider himself alpha over a human and might fight to prove it. This life-size sculpture is made of stainless steel and nickel wire. It looks exactly like a wolfdog but since it is immobile it cannot kill you (unless it fell right on top of you from a 20 story building). Rather than buy an actual wolfdog, satisfy that wild urge with a wolfdog sculpture. I originally started making wolfdog sculptures with the hope that folks would forgo the flesh and blood animal in favor of the metal one. However, I end up selling them to people that own actual wolfdogs. They love both the living ones and the metal ones. The lesson here is that human nature is not predictable.

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