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Whack, Whack, Patty Whack
12' x 5' x 5'
Old World founder Dale Johnson was chosen to be one of two American sculptors at the first International Stone Sculpture symposium to be held in the United States. Artists from Austria, Bulgaria, Italy, Japan, Spain, Mexico, and Germany participated. During the three week symposium, the people of Kettering, Ohio, and the surrounding area were able to visit an outdoor festival of carving. The city purchased each of the finished works for placement at locations as yet to be determined. Mr. Johnson's work, "Whack, Whack, Patty Whack", was the only sculpture to utilize recognizable imagery, and featured a fighting dog and cat atop a tortoise with the face of an old Mayan Indian. A little girl runs away holding her hands over her ears. Inspired by the events of 9/11, the work weighed 36,000 pounds when we started and finished out somewhere around 15,000. Working without a model, Dale and fellow Old World-er Jack Oliver used diamond blades, grinders, hand tools, and small pneumatic hammers to produce this massive stone sculpture.
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