Tom Every/ Dr. Evermor
Scrap Metal
Sumpter, Wisconsin, USA
Tom Every (born 1938, died 2020), also known as Dr. Evermor, worked in the wreckage and salvage business. He began collecting unique machine parts and eventually gathered thousands of materials. Foreverton, the largest sculpture in his environment, is 50 feet tall, 160 feet long, and weighs 320 tons. This work of art, along with other smaller sculptures, was intended to be used by Every to travel to “the celestial sphere” away from the “phoniness of this world.”
Isaiah visited the Forevertron site in 2017. Today, Tom Every’s wife, Lady Eleanor, and his daughter Tya Every Kottler maintain the site.
There is a piece of Forevertron installed in the Magic Gardens Museum, located above the first hallway in the sculpture garden. The words “Tom Every” and “Forevertron” are both included in the mosaic in the sculpture garden. PMG also purchased two objects from the Forevertron site during a trip there in 2017. They are made of similar scrap materials that also make up Forevertron.
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Scrap Metal
Location: Sculptural wall near the tree on the upper level
