Oslo-based blacksmith and photographer Tobbe Malm create these emotional sculptures using discarded bolts, for his series titled 'Bolt Poetry'.
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” I found them in a barn. They had been lying there for a long time and they might well have continued to lie there until they had rusted away and returned to their original mineral form."
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“The bolts reminded me of human forms, and I felt they had something to tell. I heated them, forged, bent and twisted. 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.”
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Check his website: http://www.jernmalm.com/
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” I found them in a barn. They had been lying there for a long time and they might well have continued to lie there until they had rusted away and returned to their original mineral form."
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMYR_NU5spFWL77kY0jR3myIJ4j7hPsFc8hHS6vXoLOPdOiL9K1c3iozLd7yuAYzc7TrzwSW59Q-y0L1Ab8LuvYJg5zTNmlgwYWLQ_uRlFb_WjQEGx91SxflWc0pOJ4X9luh5FNVMyZOk/s1600/02.jpg)
“The bolts reminded me of human forms, and I felt they had something to tell. I heated them, forged, bent and twisted. 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.”
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Check his website: http://www.jernmalm.com/
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