A dozen Ontario blacksmiths were so moved by the family’s plight that are building a gate the old\u002Dfashioned way that will be auctioned off
It has a lock, but at the moment, it does not even have hinges, so uncertain is its ultimate fate.It might not even end up as a gate at all, more of a doorway-sized piece of art in intricately worked steel, bronze and copper. Because in addition to being a fundraiser for a Ukrainian blacksmith now fighting on the front lines as his family shelters in small-town Ontario, this gate is also a poignant work of professional artistry by his metalwork designer wife.
“Instead of just cut and weld pieces together, I wanted to do something in keeping with traditional techniques,” he said. For example, the corners in the top ornamentation don’t happen just by bending hot steel. They have to be hammered into shape as the metal distorts, just as the curled tapers have to be planned and executed in three dimensions, with the depth remaining constant as the thickness tapers away.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
Despite a chronic back injury that disqualified him in peacetime, Skorobohatskyh stayed to fight, as all Ukrainian men of fighting age were required to do. He has done so bravely on the front lines, to the point of receiving a “Defender of the Fatherland” medal for a combat mission last year. He is deploying to the front again this summer.
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