A lumberjack created more than 200 sculptures in Wisconsin's Northwoods

"Unable to read or write, he taught himself to form these sculptures using wooden structures at their core wrapped in mink or barbed wire, covered in layers of cement..."

I want to understand how in the world did this man come to the decision process of using either mink or barbed wire? Seems like concrete must adhere to them both quite well?

I have never heard of the Wisonsin Northwoods until now, but I think I now know where I will want to live if I ever secure a remote position again.

That place is beautiful...

I always forget how terrible the modern ad supported web is until I travel without a dns ad blocker..

What a wonderful legacy.

I'm using this as a reminder to continue to purge the useless and focus on things that matter.

It's always exciting to see my state come up in a quirky but warm story like this!

This is my favorite type of art.

He's a lumberjack and he's okay... (sorry, i couldn't hold myself back)

Off-topic but this is one of my pet peeves of the modern web; some of the images on the page are ridiculously gigantic. We've had awesome publishing software for two decades with the very basic feature of optimizing published images but somehow nowadays it's totally acceptable to publish an article with several 10+ Mb images.