Micro pencil sculptures of Dalton Ghetti
Dalton Ghetti creates sculptures on a tiny scale. The Bridgeport, CT artist/carpenter creates incredibly detailed miniature sculptures on the tip of a pencil, on the graphite. A carpenter by trade, Ghetti carves the graphite of the pencils in his spare time often putting in just an hour or so of his spare time before his eyes go weak and tired.
The process of creating micro sculptures is obviously time-consuming. It reportedly can take him years to complete a complicated piece (the linked chain pencil sculpture took him two years.)
To create these micro-sculptures Ghetti uses tools like razor blades and needles, and of course a magnifying glass. Keep in mind, graphite is fragile. Remember in grads school you might sped 5 minutes trying to sharpen a pencil because it kept breaking… imagine trying to sculpt it for endless hours! Ghetti says that “if there’s a little bit of dust on my table at the end of the day and I didn’t break it – that’s a good day’s work.” Over time Ghetti has broke quite a few of his fragile works, what he does is keep them in what he refers to as the “cemetery collection.”
Currently, Ghetti is slowly carving a graphite tear for every victim of 9/11, finishing one each morning before he goes to work, and estimates it will take him ten years to finish and display them all together.
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