Backpacking Sculpture

“OK, so I want to make something BIG,artistic, and glorious that says 'backpacking' in place it in my front yard

I need some ideas on

1. materials
2. theme
3. design

Immediately fire and rocks come to mind...I'm not really an artist, so do you think this idea is feasible??”

“Ooooh....add a gasline to it and have the worlds first ever "eternal pepsi-can stove"”

“An enormous backpacker's trowel made of discarded clif-bar wrappers!”

“good, good, keep em coming!!”

“an extra large cat hole with fake crap and plastic TP next to the enormous trowel previously mentioned”

“How about a hug shrine honnering the one and only god of backpacking
and women. But you have to written permission from me to put it in your yard.”

“everytime i squat in the woods i leave a sculpture”

“Build a rock cairn from rocks collected from favorite places.

A monkey can stack rocks.

One need not be an artist.......like me!

River rocks with luxurious smoothness from lower glacial rivers and some jagged, broken shards from above treeline.....you do live in Oregon, non?

A thing like this could be a living sculpture with new favorite rocks substituting for old faves.

Caution should taken so that small neighbor children don't maim themselves under mini-avalanches.”

“A kiddee pool full of lime green jello.”

“How about a huge statue of a bacon ring, made of 50 pounds of varnished uncooked bacon.”

“Build yourself a path of rock cairns and a lean-to shelter.”

“hmmmmmmmmmm

This is ART not HUMOR folks!!”

“In concentric circles from the center build a small fire with smooth river stones surrouding it in a ring - kind of like an outdoorsy version of Kennedy's eternal flame - or if you did not want a true flame, the fire could be fashioned ceramic and painted red. Then surround that with 4 (at the 4 compass points) abstract "campers" made from wood sitting around this fire. These could be perhaps two logs one upright and a smaller one in a cross "T" for the head. Then behind each camper would be a shelter. Here you could differentiate to show a time progression of camping. Perhaps begin with a TeePee built from buffalo (or cow) hide, then a wooden lean-too, then a canvas structure, then a nylon structure. I don't think these need to be tents, but perhaps flags or sails if you're feeling abstract.

The theme is - The nature of campng is ageless. The gear may change, but at the heart is a desire to supplicate with nature, to know our place in it - and, when others happen along our path - share it with them.”

“biz - sorry, my new trail name is "Thread Kill".”

“wow big coop. That brings a tear to my eye”

“LOL @ Tom T.”

“Art blows cool!”

“lol is that a Fruedian slip?

Sooooo, I found out that there's a place where I can buy very large rocks with holes drilled through the center. Water shoots out of the hole, in essence creating a rock fountain. So...I may need to modify my idea to include water instead of fire!!

Ooooohhh, maybe i could have fire and water!!”

“Noooooo... Miss Smartypants! LOL

It's a Beat expression from the 50s. And before you ask if that is Freudian, I'll refer you to the works of Jack Kerouac and others. They called themselves 'Beats' not 'Beatniks,' <G>


Hmmm... Sounds like you could combine those rocks with a propane tank and a small water pump, and have a flaming frozen waterfall in your backyard when it gets cold enough outside.”

“Well crap. Can't link to a search at Amazon!”