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David Apodaca with screen door at Skyline Country Club in Tucson.
Skylar Khan | Crier
David Apodaca writing sample.
Artistic Irons of Arizona has serviced local and nearby communities for many years now.
One of a kind iron enclosures, security screen doors, tables and other furniture items can be found in many homes in and around Oracle, including Oro Valley, SaddleBrooke and Tucson.
Owner David Apodaca is quick to comprehend his clients’ needs and expectations. He will sit down with a prospective customer and start drawing a picture of the project they are talking about and before you know it, the whole concept has already been captured on paper!
Apodaca was born and raised in Winkelman by the Gila River at the Flats where there is now a park. He graduated from Hayden High School and attended Pima Community College, ASU, and then joined the Navy.
He moved to the town of Oracle in the early 1990s and started Artistic Irons of Arizona. The business has grown ever since over the past 25 years.
Lately, Apodaca has been busy studying his family’s history and roots.
Among other interesting information, he was able to find out that his great-great-grandfather Francisco Apodaca came from Pueblo Isleta, New Mexico. And that Francisco married Josefa Carillo Marales, his great-great-grandmother. Josefa was Yaqui. Thus, David Apodaca is also part Yaqui.
Apodaca speaks of his ancestors with reverence and pride.
According to what he remembers his father telling him, the Apodaca forefathers worked at the Christmas Mine in Arizona. His great-grandfather died at the age of 32. Cause of death was listed as maniacal exhaustion.
His grandfather also died at the mine through accidental electrocution in his line of duty as motorman. He was 37 years old.
Apodaca has been able to find the graves of his great-grandfather Francisco, grandfather Manuel C. and father Manuel P. in Hayden, Arizona. The rest of the family is buried in unmarked graves in Christmas.
David Apodaca is first and foremost a family man. He and wife Deanna are the proud parents of David and Athena. Son David towers over the family at 6’4”, whereas Athena is the petite gem of the family.
Being a son of the desert sun and heat, Apodaca is knowledgeable about what materials last and which ones wear in the Arizona climate. Each iron work project requires metals of various thicknesses. He states that all his bronze colors last a lifetime.
Every entrance door created by his company is handcrafted to individual specifications and adds functionality and beauty to clients’ homes. Customer input is reflected in the design and execution of the final product.
In one instance, Apodaca was commissioned to create a smooth and elegant wall piece for displaying scarves and necklaces. He fashioned an eclectic multi-pronged work of art that looked stunning all by itself, adorned or not.
Following are a couple of excerpts of a graphological examination of David’s handwriting that reveals some interesting traits:
Wordsmithing: the lower case letter d in ‘David’ and ‘Apodaca’ curves upward, leftward. This tells us that David is a born story teller. He is able to put his thoughts into words and relay them to his audience in a colorful and cohesive manner. On the other hand, he has a talent for converting clients’ words into images as he listens to descriptions of what they want.
Precision: The lower case letter p in ‘Apodaca’ exhibits a straight down-and-up stroke below the baseline. His workmanship is precise and the final piece of art fits perfectly into the designated space. There is no need for a prototype. A project will be done just once, and it will be according to specifications and measurements.
Creativity: The word ‘in’ shows an elegant shortcut of writing style by connecting the i-dot to the letter n. There are additional factors in the script that support creativity, including strong handwriting pressure which indicates color appreciation and unwavering dedication to work completion.
Authority: The lower case letter k in the words ‘Winkelman’ and ‘park’ look like capital Ks. He likes to work without supervision or outside interference. He flourishes as his own business man and would not do well working for someone else.
His chosen vocation allows David to express his inherent talents in the design and construction of unique pieces of iron art.
The fact that his creations will now be classified as Native American Art will no doubt enhance their value and appreciate over time.
For more information about Artistic Irons of Arizona, please visit artisticironsofarizona.com or call 520 896-9686.
Skylar Khan lives on a vortex in Oracle. She is a Master Graphoanalyst and has been contributing articles to The Oracle Towne Crier about personality traits revealed through Handwriting Analysis. Her book “Handwriting Rocks” is informative and entertaining. For more information, please visit HandwritingAuthority.com
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