After two years of design and construction, Alice, a giant metal T-Rex statue, has assumed her perch on a property in Penticton, B.C., overlooking Okanagan Lake.
Alice stands about seven metres tall and 15 metres long and weighs more than five tonnes. She is visible to the public from the Kettle Valley Rail Trail.
Chilliwack-based metal sculptor Kevin Stone designed Alice. He says a “tremendous” amount of work went into her creation.
“It’s amazing. Almost all my pieces go to private clients and very seldom are they out in the public,” said Stone.
Stone’s apprentice used a power hammer to create the bumpy indents on the T-Rex’s body, a process Stone described as “loud” and “hard on the hands.”
Alice
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