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Benazir Bhutto is about 16" by 22". The piece is made fence wire and pieces of metal sheet from a microwave oven. After I took this picture, I 'readjusted' her left shoulder and arm, otherwise, she would look a little stoop shouldered. A photo from the internet was used as a model for this sculpture.

Woman in Headdress is about 17" by 22." I started this piece last summer when I used a piece of newsprint as a backdrop when spray painting & couldn't just throw the paper in the trash. The paper displayed such an interesting pattern.... The face is made from flattened hanger wire. The frame was made from some wood I picked up at the dump... her face is intended to be somewhat simian & pouty.

Weightlifter was made for a friend at my health club. It is about 8" by 12". The base is scrap primavera wood & the figure is cut from 16 gauge scrap sheet steel. The nameplate had it's origin in the transformer of a microwave oven. The wood base has nail holes, knot holes and other 'imperfections' to remind us of it's origin.

Wallywire is about 12" by 20" by 7" The wire was cut from a wire 'corral' that was scrounged from a dumpster behind a Wally Mart being demolished. The 'corral' is one of those square wire enclosures that hold stuff for sale in the aisles at Wally Mart.

Passionate Hillary is about 15" by 22". The piece is made from hanger wire, fence wire, scrap sheet metal and plastic. The pearls were cut from a microwave oven transformer, formed, then painted. Hillary is the 12th rendering of a Ken Fallin caricature. The caricature appeared in the Wall St. Journal Feb 4, 2008. The tear and star aureole I added.

Four Ampersands is about 14" by 26". The red and white symbols were cut from an old stop sign I had around here for 25 years or so. I cut the molding for the frame from some discarded pine shelving and the mat boards,that I cut to size and beveled, were picked up next to a dumpster by the frame shop up the street. Lately, I've become intrigued with the art shown in much of typography.

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