The Pencil Sculptures

Nowadays, in our modern high tech society we all tend to write on the laptop a lot, whether its work related, or sketching on a CAD program, or just chatting with some friends online. However, no matter which CAD program one might use, no matter, how much typing we do per day nothing relates to using a pencil. I know it might sound very old school and quirky, but when talking on the phone you draw squiggles with a pencil, when an idea pops to mind and you have to sketch it out you use a pencil! Others, such as people like me have a pencil collection, and although one life is not enough to use all the pencils I’ve collected and I don’t even dare sharpen my pencil collection I guess the only person I would trust them to would surely be Dalton Ghetti.

Despite the fact that he would sharpen them, make them small, and create tiny like sculptures on the pin point of the pencils, I would be very happy because what he does is just amazing! Dalton Ghetti creates sculptures on a tiny scale; the Bridgeport, CT artist/carpenter creates incredibly detailed miniature sculptures on the tip of a pencil, on the graphite. A carpenter by trade, Ghetti carves the graphite of the pencils in his spare time often putting in just an hour or so of his spare time before his eyes go weak and tired. The process of creating micro sculptures is a rather time-consuming one, as it can take him years to complete a complicated piece; for instance the linked chain pencil sculpture took him two years and the giraffe took even longer!

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