Here’s an artist who has captured some of the world’s most iconic faces—from Barack Obama to Bob Dylan—using the rest of humanity as his clay. Alex Queral, a 51-year-old sculptor from Philadelphia, harvests discarded old phone books and carves famous faces from their pages. He’s created two a month for the past fourteen years by sketching the face as a template and then painstakingly slicing through the thousands of paper-thin pages to create a sculpture. “Nearing the end of the carving and then suddenly having it ruined by a careless cut can be pretty crushing.” And if a page is out of place, “You have to start all over again.”
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