Sometimes, finding your calling takes longer than you hope. Here is an excerpt from metal sculptor Adrian Landon’s About page:

“I was born and raised in New York City and attended the Lycée Francais. I have always aspired to do something creative. I wanted to be an architect, then I wanted to design cars, but I see now that all those careers are still limiting and school was just not for me.

After studying Industrial Design at the Academy of Art in San Francisco for a year, traveling and working out in the American West and learning the trade of violin making and horseback riding, I studied metal sculpture with Cliff Dufton at The Arts Students League of New York. My metal shop is currently located in Gowanus, Brooklyn, New York. I am mainly self-taught.”

I love that. He went to school for everything else, but he is mainly self-taught when it comes to his actual profession. His poor parents. Oh, and he attributes his knowledge of engineering to the fact that he played with Legos.

Anyway, I hope you are as mesmerized by this piece as I was. And I hope his parent are forgiving types.