By: Robin Ford Wallace, Reporter

This Saturday there’s more to do in downtown Trenton than visit the weekly farmers market:  From 9:30-10 a.m., the Trenton Arts Council will install a new public sculpture on the town square, the second in the ArtScape series that TAC hopes will one day add visual interest all along Main Street through town.

New Orleans-born Denice Bizot, with a fine artistic contempt for Spellchecker, calls her new sculpture “Holey Wholely Holy,” a name she explains is meant to be a play on words. “The whole sculpture is pierced with holes,” she wrote, “and the process of working for long hours to create the piece becomes quite meditative, hence the ‘holy.’ ”

Questioned gently in deference to Webster’s, which insists the adverbial form of “whole” is “wholly,” Ms. Bizot maintained: “The second word is ‘wholey.’ I made it up.”

In any case, HWH began life as an outsized steel container Ms. Bizot rescued from a recycling center near her home in Chattanooga’s St. Elmo. The sculpture measures 52 inches across and weighs about 150 pounds. Ms. Bizot fashioned it with her signature method of patient perforation with a handheld plasma torch.

The sculpture will be sited on the green space just south of the old Dade courthouse, an island in the traffic circle that already contains a flower garden created and tended by Trenton Tree City.

Tree City has in the past made headlines in these pages with its fierce protection of the pretty garden from campaign signs and event announcements, but TAC’s Mary Petruska assured the Sentinel the sculpture placement had been okayed with Tree City President Eloise Gass.

Denice Bizot is a graduate of Loyola University. Her artwork has been featured at numerous individual and group exhibits nationally. Locally, it is featured at Gallery 301 in Chattanooga, and her aluminum sculpture and home furnishings are sold at Smart Furniture.

Holey Wholely Holy, on loan to Trenton for a year, is the second in the ArtScape series. The first, stone sculpture by TAC’s own Bob Dombrowski, stands at the corner of Highways 11 and 136 East near Moore Funeral Home.