A standing pig in reclaimed sheet steel, built to be put somewhere specific - the end of a console table, a doorstep, the edge of a planter. Rounded through the body, ears cut by hand and set at a tilt, a curl of coiled wire for the tail.
The steel comes from Zimbabwean scrap yards and end-of-life material. Each pig is cut, beaten over a form and welded by hand, then finished in a chalk white worked back across the shoulders, flanks and haunches so the metal shows through underneath. The snout and trotters are left dark. On the larger sizes the makers have more room to work, so panel seams and rivet heads stay visible along the flanks - the construction is part of what you're looking at rather than something buried under paint.
Weld lines and small breaks in the paint are how these are made. No two come out the same.
Small — 13 × 6 × 7cm, about the length of a postcard Medium — 15 × 7 × 10cm, about the size of a house brick Large — (to follow)
Fine outdoors, where the paint will soften and the exposed steel deepen. Best in a stepped run of all three
Fine outdoors, where it will weather gently and improve for it. Good in threes.
