Standard equipment in California's Santa Monica centers includes three large turtles, one small goat, five chickens, a horned toad, and a real leather saddle for sawhorse riding.
The stretcher is placed upon a fulcrum, such as a sawhorse, if handy; if not, in a simple loop of rope secured overhead.
One main prop, a sawhorse, does duty as every thing from a bucking bronco to a saloon table.
Review: Matthias Merkel Hess' sculptures at once earnest and sly The dozen ceramic anvils on sawhorse and plywood tables at Acme are signature Matthias Merkel Hess: at once subversive and reverential, sly but earnest, gently comical, surprisingly beautiful and unexpectedly poetic.
June 20, 2013 - Los Angeles Times