Most people would wager that Wayne Porter has the biggest horse in South Dakota, maybe in the nation. I might even put it up at against any horse in the world.
Weighing in at about 40 tons, the horse sculpture is 40-feet-tall by 50-feet-long. His bull's head centerpiece in the park is even bigger at 60-feet-tall. For perspective, that's as big as the faces on Mount Rushmore, which is located in the western part of South Dakota. (The sculpture park is in the eastern part of the state on Interstate 90 about 30 minutes from Sioux Falls, SD and on the way to Mount Rushmore as you travel South Dakota.)
In above photo, with Wayne sitting on his hammer, the hammer looks taller than the horse because I shot the picture with the hammer in the foreground. But the hammer is tall too. It's 28 feet high.
One of the questions visitors to the sculpture park often ask is: How could one man create such large sculptures by himself? My book answers the how, the why, and what he had to overcome.
"The Power of the Bull: Inside the Head of Sculptor Wayne Porter" is available now at Barnes and Noble.
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