In this 84-year-old man’s eyes, iron is more than just a building material.
Li Yichun /CFP Photo
Li Yichun, from the city of Shenyang in northeast China’s Liaoning Province, has converted the waste iron he has found to pieces of artwork, like a slithering dragon or swarming fish and turtles.
A figurine after the fashion of Monkey King Sun Wukong, a Chinese mythological figure /CFP Photo
Li collected wasted iron and used his instruments to mold every iron plate into different figurines. A 2.1-meter-long dragon which looks like slithering in the air was his first work.
Li Yichun's tools for converting iron to art /CFP Photo
“In the very beginning, I use wasted cardboard to make what I imagined in my mind. Little by little, I used iron plates, which are not as vulnerable of damage,” Li said to the CFP.
Li has made 14 iron handicraft works so far, which have taken him three years to construct. All of his work has been hung in the residential area where he lives and decorates.
Take a look at Li's ironwork!
An iron turtle /CFP Photo
An iron fish /CFP Photo
An iron butterfly /CFP Photo
An iron eagle /CFP Photo
