sewing needle + razor blade +pencil – magnifying glass +oodles of patience = Dalton Ghetti’s PENCIL LEAD sculptures

Dalton Ghetti on his work:

“…But when I tell people how long it takes, that’s when they don’t believe it. That’s what amazes people more, the patience. Because everything nowadays has to be fast, fast, fast.”

Sandy Lefkowitz on Dalton Ghetti:

“When people are passionate and creative and they can produce something unique, what they say to the world is, ‘It’s all possible,’ ” she said. “When something in this chaotic world can make you stop and focus, I think it’s very serious.”

More from Dalton Ghetti:

His current projects include a handsaw and a single rice-grain-sized teardrop for every victim of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

“The idea is, as you walk in, you’ll see a huge tear drop far away,” he said. “As you walk up close to it, you’ll see that it’s made up of tiny little ones. So I make one a day. I was watching the whole thing from Sherwood Island State Park, and I broke down and cried all day. I had a vision about doing something about it, and that’s what I came up with. It’ll probably take about 10 years to do it.”

Read more at the NYTimes.

via Amy at MyModernMet.
and Wonderment and Telegraph
(more pictures at the above links)