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I was born and raised in a scrapyard. My dad had a scrap yard here in town and his name is Ben Whitten and I could use the torch before I could walk I guess. And this is Ben witten's front yard. He calls it the art yard. This is moses arm his staff and the burning bush For 12 years. Uncle Bae, as his friends call him, has been taking sheets of steel and pieces of iron along with a bit of imagination and transforming it all into these sculptures that fill his yard. He does it for one reason he wants to. I'm certainly not a natural, that's for sure, but I enjoy it. Listen, I'm 74 years old, I'm in time. It's time I started enjoying things. Uncle Babe started his art yard with this car mobile over the years. He's cut and pounded and bent out such pieces as this skier moses and the sailing ships. From the abstract to the humerus. Uncle Babe even sell some of his work from time to time. What makes this all the more amazing is witten has never had any training as an artist. He makes it up as he goes along doing with his hands, what he sees in his mind when we were kids, we used to look at the sky and we saw the clouds and so forth and well it's the same way where I'm in there just playing with a paperclip and bending it and maybe a design will come out of it After 12 years. Witness front yard is pretty much full, but uncle babe is nowhere close to being done. He says he still sees new shapes and new creations in his imagination, and his backyard is even larger than his front yard dana card with an eye on Iowa, that Uncle Babes art Yard.