Jennifer Maestre
Friday, April 24, 2009
Jennifer Maestre‘s amazing pencil sculptures were originally inspired by sea urchins. For each sculpture, Maestre cuts pencils into one-inch sections, drills a hole into each of them, and then stitches them together using a common bead-weaving technique known as peyote stitch. She estimates she uses approximately 5000 pencils a year for her work, which now includes jewellery based on the same technique.
