So if you drive north out of Demopolis , Alabama you’ll find some unique art in a field about 8 milesoutside of town.  I drove over to take some pictures of bails of hay that spoke no evil, heard no evil, and saw no evil.  A tinman towered above the hay to stand watch.  A sailboat, a few miles from the water, sailed on a sea of hay.  I found this on the web, “Jim Bird doesn’t fancy himself a poor man’s Picasso, but he’s built quite a reputation by making hay out of hay. His reward isn’t monetary. It’s the exposure he’s gotten locally and around the world as a result of his hay bale architecture during the past 15 years. Motorists driving along U.S. 43 between Demopolis and Eutaw in Alabama’s mostly rural western Black Belt region do a lot of double-takes as they gaze over at Bird’s pastures to see all sorts of strange critters created out of the bales. You name it and he’s probably made it or thought of making it—from a Betty Boop bale to a spider, a caterpillar, Atlanta Braves cap and even a boat “floating” above several bales that represent waves.”  You kind of have to be looking to find this, as there’s not a lot of anything else in this part of Alabama.

 You can read more about this man in Dem,opolis and his art here!