(birds chirping) (mystical music) - [Paul] I hate to see anything that has a potential instead go across the ocean and be turned back into raw material, sheet, bar, whatever, and then shipped back over here and start over in the process.

I'd rather short circuit it and keep it here.

(mystical music) I started out with farm machinery from the barns that I take down, which is one of my other compulsive-obsessive behaviors, and got into industrial scrap.

Sometimes I pick up a piece or the piece is just screaming what it wants to be, and I tell people that I need to get my brain out of the way and just let my hands do what they need to do.

(mystical music) And it's gone gonzo, kinda outta control now.

(mystical music) I love incorporating rocks, which is my symbol for nature.

I like to have the kinetic pieces with people or birds balanced by a rock.

So the idea that I'm trying to transmit is that everything we do affects nature and everything nature does affects us.

I like the stainless pieces because to me, the stainless pieces, not only do they reflect the sunlight, the moonlight, dew, or frost, there's just a different energy than the rusty pieces, which, to me, are more natural.

They blend in.

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