Being in a terribly good mood today makes me want to share more wicked art with you. It’s always inspiring to find something totally new and fresh in a world in which most ideas have been used over and over again. Sculptures aren’t my favourite thing ever but I’ve got to admit Jennifer Maestre’s work made a huge impression when I came across it. Especially the stuff she’s done using pencils as a raw material just blows the roof off.

She’s also doing wonderful things with beads and nails but there’s just no beating the pencil idea. It must take ages to do one of these sculptures. It works like this; she takes hundreds of pencil, cuts them into an inch long pieces, sharpens the pieces, drills a hole into each one of them and finally sews the stuff together. I’d imagine the final sculptures are pretty fragile too. After all it doesn’t take much to break the tip of a pencil.

Jennifer is originally from South Africa but now lives in the States. I’m hoping she’ll bring her art over to Europe one of these days because I’d sure like to see it live.