Os-prey Bike Rack - Jacksonville, FL
N 30° 16.221 W 081° 30.417
17R E 451238 N 3348851
This bicycle tender shaped like a large orange fish is located on the campus of the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida.
Waymark Code: WMNTY7
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 05/03/2015
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The following information about the bicycle tender is from the university's Spinnaker newsletter (
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[Artist's] Name: David Main
Sculpture: Os-prey
Location: Between the Biological Sciences Building and Skinner-Jones Hall South
Sculpting for: 3 years
Preferred Medium: Steel, Ceramics and Wood
Main made his sculpture, a giant bright orange fish, by cutting steel rods, bending them with a pipe bender, laying out the formation of the fish and welding the rods together. He said he chose this form for his bike rack because he was interested in taking something natural and organic and turning it into unmaneuverable steel. He said he liked the idea of using the ribs as bike holders and making an usually small object enormous. He prefers sculpture for the 3-D aspect. “It invades the space. It’s interactive. You can touch it, you can feel it, you can pick it up,” he said. Main hasn’t always been a sculptor, but he’s been “making stuff” since he was a kid. Now, he sculpts by taking old objects that he finds around and adding, taking away, or rearranging elements of it for something else. Main currently has another sculpture on display in Downtown Kissimmee.