![]() “We really want our work to play a role in society. Sculptors Erik and Israel Nordin have done numerous works for private collectors, but they upshifted in recent years to create art for public spaces. Clemens, the last set to get a 30-foot abstract take on Michigan pine trees. Suburban plans include big works slated for civic sites and parks this year in Shelby Township, Clinton Township and Mt.Private donors funded it to adorn a traffic roundabout and send a message of inclusion on Kercheval Avenue, a stone’s throw east of Alter Road, until a speeding drunk driver smacked it. Under repair is a 20-foot-tall, stainless-steel suggestion of two boat masts sporting blue-and-silver sails, named “Sails of Two Cities,” which had graced Detroit’s border with Grosse Pointe Park.Elsewhere, dozens of the brothers’ welded-steel abstractions, many with colored glass panels, are landmarks on public sites across metro Detroit, including a piece at 14 th Street and Michigan Avenue in Detroit’s Corktown district, near their steel factory-turned-studio.In progress, a 42-foot tall, welded-steel-and-glass sculpture called “The Path of Life,” made from I-beams salvaged from the razing of Joe Louis Arena, is scheduled for installation in May at the new Detroit riverfront park just south of the former arena site.Under Michigan Stars,” anchors the south end of the 1,000-mile Iron Belle Trail that, once completed, will reach from Detroit to Ironwood, at the far west end of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. At Belle Isle Park, an eight-ton wheel of see-through steel, split in half, landed at the island’s east end last fall, although lighting for night viewing was installed just this month.With cutting torches, arc welders, grinders and gantry cranes, they’ve repurposed truckloads of salvaged steel, turning a Motor City heritage of metal into can’t-miss art like this: ![]() Junkyard dogs shouldn’t be friendly like these two guarding a factory of art.īut they mimic their owners, two outgoing brothers who converted their late father’s century-old steel plant into metro Detroit’s best-known source of big public art. ![]()
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