Globus Dei
Fort Payne, AL, United States
United States
34.467351, -85.647561
Junk Creatures of Mike Goggans - Lirpa Anad Nitsud
Folk artist Mike Goggans has a shiny silver robot named Lirpa Anad Nitsud out by the road. More sculptures are hidden behind some trees, including the towering Junkosaurus.
Lirpa Anad Nitsud and other Junk-Art Sculptures in the Alabama Hinterland
In 10 years of work Mike Goggans has built his Junkosaurus Wrecks from all kinds of scrap metal. Washing machine parts, screws, scrap metal, belt buckles - everything metallic was processed into this 6-meter high prehistoric behemoth. On the roadside, however, the future stands in the form of a scrap robot with the name "Lirpa Anad Nitsud" which is probably the names of the artist's children read backwards.
Furthermore, SpongeBob, a kangaroo with a child in a pouch, an ostrich, the Zerk-Zing-Gugbloot and other "small animals"1 cavort in the backyard.
All in all, a charming roadside attraction that should appeal especially to children.
Once mighty dinosaurs roamed our planet.
They vanished back to the earth from whence they came.
Then came the industrial revolution.
Man took the earth and made things, lots of things.
He made gadgets, do-dads, giz-mos, thing-a-magiggers,
hicky-doogers, and doom-fletchys.
They wore out. They were thrown away.
This gave rise to Junkosaurus Wrecks.
The barn "The Banyard" located on the property can be rented for events.
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