"Swimming" in a Stock Tank

This sculpture depicts a familiar activity of my early childhood in the 1930’s and 40’s.  The sculpture is half size and the metal ¼ inch thick.

Before we would get in the tank, we would try to skim what we called “algae” from the water that was next to the side of the tank. Today that seems very unsanitary, but it didn’t bother us then. Once we got in the water, we would try to keep that cattle from drinking by splashing them.

As a side note that didn’t have anything to do with us: the town kids were not swimming in their pools because of the polio scare.  Be that as it may, here is an old memory in steel.