PEOPLE | CULTURE | HAPPENINGS | TRENDS beach bites Fish Out of Water Off the Hook By JONATHAN HARTMANN | Photography by ALLISON POTTER Mark Batson has one. John McClatchey’s Fish House has one. Taylor Miller, winner of the Big Rock Blue Marlin tournament, has one. Schools of stainless steel and copper fish made in a Wilmington, North Carolina, warehouse, decorate homes and landmarks like trophies. On the surface, the R Mended Metals warehouse looks less like a holding tank for colossal aquatic sculptures and more like a storage unit for boats and fishing equipment. Inside, seahorses seemingly swim above a sea floor covered with sheets of metal waiting for the touch of Roy Taylor, his wife, Rebecca, and their crew. The Taylors didn’t always make a living creating custom aquatic sculptures. Roy worked in the scuba industry for almost twenty years. Roy and Rebecca Taylor (above) create metal and mixed media sculpture with their team at R Mended Metals in Wilmington. Driftwood found by the Taylors serves as the foundation for this piece that includes copper lookdowns along with painted and unpainted steel baitfish. 12 august 2014 WBM
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