Israeli artist Nirit Levav has a unique take on recycling—she uses old bike parts to make sculptures of man's best friend.
She uses recycled bike chains, pedals, gears and even seats to create her statues, and has already sculpted enough to fully stock a kennel.
The mother-of-four, 49, began her career as a fashion designer before deciding to explore art. She starting out using a variety of recycled metal like keys, rail and light bulbs, and visited bike shops and garages to pick up material.
Israel-based artist Nirit Levav uses recycled bike chains to sculpt her favourite animal
The mother-of-four, 49, began her career as a fashion designer before deciding to explore art
She was inspired to tansform strings of bike chains into the long coat of an Afghani dog
The first dog she made was a rottweiler, thinking that the rough edges of the broken metal pieces would reflect the dog’s tough personality. Instead, Ms Levav was surprised to find the result was more friendly and cute than intimidating.
That first sculpture inspired her to experiment more with strings of bike chains and transform them into the long coat of an Afghani dog, and from there she went on to sculpta collection of full-size greyhounds, a Bichon Fris, a cocker spaniel, poodles and other dogs.
The full collection, called How Wow, is available on the artist's website.
The artist starting out using a variety of recycled metal like keys, rail and light bulbs, and visited bike shops and garages to pick up material
Ms Levav artist even uses bike bells to represent the ears of the dog on the left
The first dog she made was a rottweiler, thinking that the rough edges of the broken metal pieces would reflect the dog's tough personality
Instead, Ms Levav was surprised to find the result was more friendly and cute than intimidating
The artist has already has already sculpted enough metal dogs to fully stock a kennel
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