It has been said that public art is a reflection of how we see the world, the artist's response to our time and place.

Tonight, Pamela Watts of Rhode Island PBS Weekly introduces us to an artist who has often combined those concepts literally.

The story is part of our arts and culture series, Canvas.

Time flies for tens of thousands of drivers who travel every day on Route 95 in Providence,

you can't miss the mischievous worker, about to roll a clock right off the roof of the former Brown and Sharp manufacturing company.

Foundry Clock Man is just one of the whimsical works of modern metal art created by contemporary sculptor Peter Deepenbrock.

The sort of metaphor of it is why is time so dominating in our lives?

Time is totally dominating. You think about how we are obsessed with time

a day. Seasons, you know, retirement. There's all these ways of chunk, you know, dividing life up into time chunks.

It's a rejection of that.

Deepen Brock constructs most of his stainless steel pieces

here in his home studio in Jamestown.

His is a curiosity shop of fanciful quirky objects,

handcrafted items, as well as many maquettes, artist preliminary models.

Deep in Brock's recent piece of public art is an almost 10 foot tall rabbit springing to life. The gesture is sort of a skating kind of

flying bunny which is sort of inspiring hopefully to young people to kind of live

lightly in your own life. It's called O'Stara, translation, a celebration

of new beginnings. Life is so serious right now. The world is in such crisis, it seems like, everywhere everywhere you look that we could use a little more humor and a little less dark

subject matter.

Constructing these structures has allowed him to be the architect of his own career.

At the core of it is, I love making stuff.

And so it's kind of like, what could I make today?

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