I believe this is an amazing piece of Southern country culture. Ifrst, it's part of the legacy of how the town of Centerville has honored the local legacy. But it's also from a local artist using a rare art form and it appears in a quaint location.
The story begins with this statue from 2005: flic.kr/p/h243t
Unhappy with the way city leaders treated the town square traffic leading to the statue, it was moved several times. The city fixed town square traffic and in 2016 then commissioned this chicken wire statue to placed in the same spot as the first.
Recently, a more traditional statue was placed on the square: flic.kr/p/2pvxXxq
The Chicken wire statue needed a new home. A local garden club had the perfect spot. On the east side of town where highway 100/48 cross the Duck River, there's an intersection with the old highway runs between a rock bluff and the river. At that intersection is the Centerville Bluff Garden and this art has been moved to a natural ledge halfway up the bluff.
Map: www.google.com/maps/@35.7851792,-87.4571496,3a,75y,354.66...
The Artist is Ricky Pittman. He intended to make more or Pearl, but the project was unfunded. However, he was commissioned to make a Dolly Parton out of Chicken Wire for the Graduate Hotel in Nashville. He has a website here: egrapevinestore.com/blog/
See this photo on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/brent_nashville/53552975459/
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