West Lafayette — Purdue University will install a new life-size horse sculpture on campus that’s made of bronze but looks like pieces of wood.

The 1,700-pound sculpture by Deborah Butterfield was paid for by a Purdue endowment that can be used only for buying art.

Butterfield created the sculpture by assembling wooden sticks, logs and branches to form the shape of a horse, and the sculpture was photographed. The wooden pieces were then removed, covered with a ceramic molding material and fired in a kiln so the wood burned away. The remaining ceramic molds were used to cast replicas of the wood in bronze, and the sculpture was reassembled.

The sculpture will be named Monday during its installation on Purdue’s South Campus Plaza.