On July 22, West Shore driftwood artist Paul Lewis was working on the remote Hesquiat Peninsula, located roughly halfway up the west coast of Vancouver Island.<\/p>\n
Accessible only by helicopter, he was part of a small crew building scaffolding to restore the century-old Estevan Point Lighthouse.<\/p>\n
That same day, when he learned Ozzy Osbourne had died, his mood sank.<\/p>\n
Lewis pulled out his phone and began listening to the British rock icon\u2019s discography. When Mama, I\u2019m Coming Home started playing, the grief hit him hard.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen that song came on, I was working by myself\u2026 and I was just bawling my eyes out,\u201d he said. \u201cThat kind of hit close to home for me.\u201d<\/p>\n
When day turned to night, Lewis headed out with an electric drill and screws in hand to work on his latest driftwood project. But when he arrived, he had a sudden change of heart.<\/p>\n
\u201cOriginally it started off with something like a plant-eating dinosaur, but then I thought, \u2018You know what, we can do this better,\u2019\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
While scrolling the internet for a fierce-looking dinosaur, Lewis found the perfect one: a semi-fictional, two-crested lizard straight out of the Jurassic Park universe.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I saw the dilophosaurus come up and I was like, ‘Wow, I should do that,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s kind of where it took off, so I made his mouth bigger, gave him teeth and gave him a big tongue.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tucked away in the bush near the coastline, next to an old cemetery, Lewis felt this was the perfect setting to baptize his creation, Ozzy, as a tribute to the late Black Sabbath frontman.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought it was kind of fitting for the Prince of Darkness,\u201d he said. \u201cYou find that thing in the dark and you’re going to be freaked right out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Located steps away from the Hesquiat Peninsula trail, a coveted spot for hikers and adrenaline seekers, the sculpture is now marked by a small footpath created by Lewis and the lighthouse keeper.<\/p>\n
Hoping to bring a bit of light in a moment of darkness, Lewis created this piece to warm the hearts of those who happen to pass by.<\/p>\n
\u201cI grew up listening to Black Sabbath and Ozzy,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd the fact that the Prince of Darkness died, I just thought it was a nice thing to name it Ozzy just as a tribute to him and my childhood.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On July 22, West Shore driftwood artist Paul Lewis was working on the remote Hesquiat Peninsula, located roughly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[39484,76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-60201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-artistvancouver-islanddinosaurtribute","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}