by Karina Jones
Dan Toone has spent most of his days doing metal work and welding in the food and dairy industry. In his free-time, he welds his own artistic creations, some of them out of scrap materials from his day job, in the studio he and his son built in Taylorsville. The two-story, 1200 square-foot structure features a storage loft, accessible by stairs that can be hoisted up and down. Six skylights flood the space with natural light, a pot-belly stove in the center provides heat, and a collection of signs adorn the walls . Scrap metal may pile up in the driveway, but inside the materials for the sculptures he and his son, Joshua, create are placed in an orderly fashion — a necessity for working efficiently but also for making room for the studio’s other resident, a 1939 red Plymouth truck Toone hopes to someday get in working condition so he can use it to deliver sculptures.
You can view the photo essay of Dan Toone’s studio space in the June 2010 edition of 15 Bytes.
