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If you've lived in
Huntsville for several years, you may know Dr. Peter Yu as a gifted cardio-thoracic
surgeon. You may not know that, since his
retirement from medicine, he has transformed his surgeon’s hands into sculptor’s
hands. Instead of performing surgery on
people, he transforms pieces of metal into three-dimensional sculptures.
After
retirement, Dr.Yu looked for a new outlet for his considerable energy. Inspiration came in
the form of a metal wall sculpture that he had admired over the years in a restaurant in
Decatur.The owners weren’t interested in selling it, but were willing to lend it to
him to copy. When he couldn’t locate
someone to do that for him, his family suggested that he learn to do it himself. And so he
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| His wife supported
and accompanied him as he went to N. Carolina for a week-long course of study with Max
Howard. Now he has his own metal-working
studio arranged with the precision of an operating room. The original sculpture that Peter
Yu wanted to copy was of a country store. After making that, he branched out to other
subjects. Cattails, maple branches, and fish have been captured in enameled metal by his hands.
As a young man in China, he learned
calligraphy (his only training in art), and the fluidity of the lines in his sculpture
reflect that background. |
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