Use pipes, screws and other waste materials
can be made
A castle, a train, a factory building?
It's not impossible!
Recently, in an abandoned factory on Baiyun Road in Yufeng District, the reporter saw a lot of broken copper and rotten iron hanging on the wall. Unexpectedly, these broken copper and rotten iron were "transformed" through Mai Zhenhua's hands and became a very ornamental work of art, as large as more than two meters in shape, as small as dozens of centimeters of bicycles, which are exquisite.
Model steam train
Who is Mak Chun-wah?
Why did he do these looks?
Broken copper and rotten iron are reborn in the grinding
Mai Zhenhua, 70 years old this year, is a retired employee of the unit. When he was just retiring, at an exhibition, he saw someone turning scrap car parts into a creative steel art. After returning home, he repeatedly pondered that it was a good thing to turn waste into treasure, so he began to teach himself, go to the waste market to buy auto parts, and carefully cut, weld and polish. Since then, I have devoted myself to the production of iron.
The warehouse is rich in semi-finished wrought iron products with "Liuzhou elements"
On the second floor of the studio, there are many models. Mak Zhenhua pointed to a wrought iron grandfather clock ornament made of parts: "This is a wrought iron grandfather clock composed of wheels, rails and scrap steel, which was well received by the organizers when participating in the Guangxi Art Exhibition, and they said that they saw stories about industrial Liuzhou from this work. ”
Wrought iron grandfather clock
Next to the wrought iron grandfather clock, there is also an old steam locomotive mold. "This train is made of waste plastic drainage pipes, screws, etc., the locomotive is all handmade, the production cycle is about 90 days, and the whole train weighs about 20 kilograms." Mai Zhenhua introduced that this simulated steam locomotive is imitated according to the domestic production of steam locomotive, it can imitate the train walking on the track, but also emit a loud whistle, action and lighting can be manually remote control operation.
Seeing these vivid wrought iron works, the reporter originally thought that Mai Zhenhua was from the class, but he admitted that he spent more than 10 years from scratch, constantly learning, practicing, groping, and also walking through many detours. Nowadays, creativity and technology are difficult for him, but how to use these broken copper and iron to create larger and more spectacular "Liuzhou elements" works, he began to try to enter this new world.
Mai Zhenhua "Taobao" in waste materials
Wrought iron production is more "Liuzhou element"
"It doesn't matter what the scrap material is, what matters is that when they are combined, they become what you want to express." In the warehouse on the first floor of the studio, various scrap car parts are hung on the wall and piled up in the corners. Mai Zhenhua set high demands on his works, not only to reflect the glory of Liuzhou industry, but also to excavate the innovation of the use of scrap steel materials in the post-industrial era.
Scrap steel materials are hung on the walls of the warehouse
On the production table, what makes people shine is a wrought iron shape, which looks like an ice castle, and if you look closely, you will find that there are computer motherboards, gears and other auto parts products on it. "It's an attempt at a large-scale work, and it took months, and after many processes such as turning, milling, planing, grinding, etc., I named it 'City in the Sky.'" Mak Said he used mechanical parts to make shapes from anime, hoping to attract teenagers to learn about the story of Liuzhou Industry through these works.
Castle in the Sky Wrought Iron Works
"The creation of this work originated from a factory building in the Oriental Dream Factory, and the idea of the creation was to highlight the bright transformation of Liuzhou from a 'sour rain capital' to an ecologically livable city." The largest and most powerful thing is a semi-finished product nearly two meters high in the warehouse, hundreds of waste mechanical parts such as staggered pipe networks, car engines, fuel tanks, etc., which are arranged and combined artistically to form a strong visual impact. According to Mai Zhenhua, he and his friends used more than 500 waste parts and more than 4,400 meters of pipe welding, and the semi-finished product is estimated to weigh 1,500 kilograms.
Mai Zhenhua spent his days in the studio, burying his head in the grinding of these scrap copper and rotten iron, some people think his retirement life is very boring, but he feels that his heart is particularly full. More than a decade after his retirement, he created thousands of steel works of art. These works spread through circles, and more and more enthusiasts and merchants got in touch with him. In the future, he will devote himself to the production of more "Liuzhou elements" of iron works, through which everyone can better understand the development of Liuzhou and provide young people with an engine to explore the past.
Source/ Liuzhou No. 1 All-media reporter Luo Miao
Editor/Ye Yu Review/Chen Yuewen
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