Awesome Metal Animal Sculptures Made Out Of Silverware

You could use silverware as a utensil for eating, launch them at your buddies for a good old fashioned fork fight, or grab a pair of spoons and start slapping ‘em on your leg to a bluegrass beat.

Or you could follow artist Gary Hovey’s lead and turn a pile of stainless steel spoons, forks and knives into awesome metal animal sculptures.

Gary’s utensil menagerie includes a shaggy gorilla family made out of forks, an impressively realistic elephant made mostly out of spoons, and a cute little deer with spindly butterknife legs and spoony texture that really adds to its character.

And since the animals are made from stainless steel silverware they’re dishwasher safe!

-Via Beautiful/Decay