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I like collaborating with 80 or 100 musicians, but that’s also why I like doing art so much: it’s a solitary thing,” she says.

Torberson turns cast off items and scrap materials into trellises, torches, candle stick holders, and objects that are simply meant to be looked at-like this garden art .

“That on is very musical, isn’t it?” asks the welder musician, whose busy making pieces for a music themed show at the Hi-iH Gallery in February.

In explanation of the pictured piece, Torberson says, “ I love circles. I made it from rebar, a clutch timing gear, an arc from an old farm cultivator, and a giant washer. When I am at an art show, men love to stop in my booth and tell me what all the things in my sculptures are.”

A self described junk artist, Torberson brakes for dumpsters with metal sticking out. I’ll dress formally for a concert, then I’ll pull on my overalls, get in my truck, and hit the dumpsters in the neighborhood,” she says. “It’s amazing what we throw away in a big city.”
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