A former church pastor-turned-artist has spent a lifetime living in different U.S. states working in different trades but now calls Texas home. For years, he’s been building colossal sculptures out of old, rusty metal—combining a Western motif and a penchant for big beasts to create life-sized longhorn bulls, grandiose horses, bears, and buffalo. The 64-year-old metal artists based in Livingston scours the backroads of Texas in search of his wears. He attends trade days, auctions, and swap meets to obtain what he seeks: rustic and rusty industrial scrap such as plow discs, old tools, and jewelry from yesteryear. “At a young age I became a rusty metal connoisseur,” artist Corby Skiles declared to The Epoch Times. That rusty metal would become the medium for his reclaimed “environmental art.” Skiles found his calling as a sculptor of large animals in a roundabout way. After suffering a back injury in 2009 and undergoing several operations, …