Bolt Poetry: Blacksmith Evokes Emotion In Steel By Bending It Into Human Shapes

Published 10 years ago

Nails, nuts and bolts aren’t very emotional things by themselves. But that’s where artists come in! Tobbe Malm, a Swedish blacksmith and photographer living in Oslo, has made Bolt Poetry: tiny, emotion filled sculptures made from bolts. Collected from a Swedish farm where they were rusting away, these bolts were transformed into people. People who seem to be grieving, a lot.

The bolts reminded me of human forms, and I felt they had something to tell. I heated them, forged, bent and twisted.” Tobbe writes on his website “I tried to create relations, meetings and situations and suddenly stories emerged about sorrow, joy, pain, warmth and humour. A kind of poetry was created, hence the title.” Somehow, I haven’t noticed neither joy nor humour.

Maybe the honorable reader has senses more acute than mine!

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Martynas Klimas

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