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Jennifer Maestre creates colorful abstract sculptures of sea urchins out of colored pencils. Maestre takes hundreds of pencils, cut them into 1-inch sections, drill a hole in each section (to turn them into beads), sharpen them all and sew them together to form a prickly, spiny wooden sea creature and the shading of each sculpture is obtained by varying the placement of various shades of pencil crayon.

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