Miniature Pencil Sculptures by Dalton Ghetti

 

Dalton Ghetti creates incredible miniature sculptures by carving into the graphite of lead pencils. Amazingly he hasn't pulled out all of his hair in frustration every time a pencil breaks in the process. Some of these sculptures can take several months to create and he's admitted, "It would drive me mad when I would be just a bit too heavy handed and the pencil's tip would break. I would get very nervous sometimes, particularly when the piece was almost finished, and then I would make a mistake. I decided to change the way I thought about the work - when I started a new piece my attitude would be 'well this will break eventually but let's see how far I get. It helped me break fewer pencils, and although I still do break them, it's not as often"

Taken from telegraph.co.uk

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For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

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