Farmers Love His Barbed Wire Art
After taking down barbed wire fencing for years, Jerome Hoerner started "playing around" with the piles of discarded wire, twisting it into decorative shapes. The first piece he made was a heart for his wife, Joan, on Valentine's day. Since then he's made over 100 pieces ranging from 4 to 20 in. in size.
His favorite objects are crosses and figures. The pieces often contain up to 30 ft. of twisted or braided barbed wire. "I wear leather fencing gloves," he says. "I've worn out several pairs of gloves along with wire cutters." The finished pieces are left free-standing, mounted on walls, or even set on animal bones for display.
Ideas for the sculptures come from all over. "I'm always open to new ideas, and once in a while someone will say why don't you try this or that, so I get ideas that way. But sometimes what I start out making isn't what it turns out to be," he notes.
Joan sees first hand the way people react to her husband's hobby when she has exhibited at craft sales. Especially impressed are retired farmers and children.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Jerome and Joan Hoerner, 6690 51st Street, Glen Ullin, N. Dak. 58631 (ph 701 348-3392; email: georgejr@ btinet.net).
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Farmers Love His Barbed Wire Art AG WORLD 27-6-23 After taking down barbed wire fencing for years, Jerome Hoerner started "playing around" with the piles of discarded wire, twisting it into decorative shapes. The first piece he made was a heart for his wife, Joan, on Valentine's day. Since then he's made over 100 pieces ranging from 4 to 20 in. in size.
His favorite objects are crosses and figures. The pieces often contain up to 30 ft. of twisted or braided barbed wire. "I wear leather fencing gloves," he says. "I've worn out several pairs of gloves along with wire cutters." The finished pieces are left free-standing, mounted on walls, or even set on animal bones for display.
Ideas for the sculptures come from all over. "I'm always open to new ideas, and once in a while someone will say why don't you try this or that, so I get ideas that way. But sometimes what I start out making isn't what it turns out to be," he notes.
Joan sees first hand the way people react to her husband's hobby when she has exhibited at craft sales. Especially impressed are retired farmers and children.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Jerome and Joan Hoerner, 6690 51st Street, Glen Ullin, N. Dak. 58631 (ph 701 348-3392; email: georgejr@ btinet.net).
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