I always enjoy art where the artist takes a thing meant for one purpose, such as a toothpick, and produces something entirely different with it. (See the incredible fleet of ships my friend Wayne Kusy has built from the humble wooden sticks here and watch the video at the end of this post). In the photos below, Jennifer Maestre creates beautiful fantastic images — some resembling exotic sea creatures, others strange microscopic life — from pencil stubs. Great stuff, but I imagine you have to be very careful handling the pieces with all of those sharpened pencil points sticking out or else suffer in an unexpectedly pointed way for your art.
1. “Chimera”
2. “Ibentina”
3. “Materialize”
4. “Tiamat”
For more on Jennifer Maestre, go here.