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About the Artist
The Artist
Jeff Best resides in Clare Michigan and is an avid outdoorsman. His love for the outdoors has inspired him creatively through the medium of wire sculptures.
More specifically, barbed-wire sculptures . Yes, the same old barbed-wire that has severed its original purpose by holding back livestock and defining a landowners boundary.
Jeff rescues the "Devils Rope" off old fence posts and farm refuge dumps. He revitalizes the old guardian and gives it a new purpose and profound beauty through his original creations.
Jeff creates to order. Standard items include deer, elk, chickens, ducks, trees and horses, however, will hand craft just about anything desired.
Devils Rope Studio sculptures have been used for driveway archways, yard landscaping, flowerbeds, business welcome centers, artistic home interior pieces as well as many other applications.
All Devils Rope sculptures are made with 100% reclaimed barbed wire and each piece is uniquely handcrafted and original unto itself.
From Rust to Open Hearted
You served your purpose,
You gave your best
Restraining all inhabitants
Like eggs from a nest
But today you rest on a rock pile
Rusted, bent and spoiled
No longer hanging on that fence post
But discarded, a dissolving coil
Your season has approached you
The soil soon will return
As winter softens your back
Just as frost speaks to the fern
But out of the darkness comes redemption
A gift too good to refuse
Pulled from vine and humus
Time no longer subject of abuse.
He wraps and molds you with his grace
A novel purpose of life and aim
Confessing to a renewed natal
A foundation of a new claim
Yes he obtained you from the grave
All dirty, worn and discarded
Gifting you a new lease of life
From rust to the opened hearted.
Best 2016 ©