The monumental piece replaces the recently departed “CANADIAN GOALIE” which delighted passersby of Loch Gallery before it was loaned to the Molson Canadian Hockey House during the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games.

Originally from Montreal, artistic duo Patrick Amiot and his wife, Bridgette Laurent have been based in California for over a decade. They have created a reputation as the Michelangelo’s of recycled art by animating their adopted community with over 300 large-scale outdoor sculptures.

The TORONTO BLUE JAY towers 11 feet high and is comprised of an assortment of retired instruments rescued from a junk yard. An aircraft carrier tank forms the body of the baseball player; the tobacco chew in his mouth is an old school bell, while the eyes are sports clocks from a school. Amiot searches for objects with an inherent shape which he transposes, like the scrap yard crushing claw representing the baseball mitt.