Pencil sculptures by Dalton Ghetti

Elvis

Saw

Wonderful isn't it.These are tiny sculptures made out of pencil lead by Dalton Ghetti of Bridgeport,Connecticut, USA using just three tools a razor blade, sewing needle and sculpting knife and the most interesting fact is that he never uses a magnifying glass for creating such miniature crafts.Each piece of art requires days or even months to complete and the effort is worth it as the end result is just wonderful.He has been sculpting pencils for 25 years.

Dalton Ghetti was born and raised in Brazil. In 1985 he moved to the USA, where he earned an architecture degree from Norwalk Community Technical College in Connecticut. Today he makes his living in Connecticut as a carpenter, remodeling and modernizing homes.

One of the best sculptures of Dalton Ghetti is the chain  in which the middle of the pencil is converted into 23 links.

Dalton Ghetti is currently working on a project dedicated to the victims of the 9/11 attack. He is carving over 3,000 tears from pencil leads, one teardrop for each victim. The thousands of tiny tears will be arranged to form one large teardrop.He has been working on this since 2002 making a drop a day spending an hour for each drop and the project would take 10 years.Image of sculpting of the drops can be seen (here).

Dalton Ghetti also has a collection of those pieces which broke during sculpting .He calls the collection as cemetry collection.

The sculptures are testimony to the dedication,patience and love of art of the person.

If by now you are wondering where you can get on of the sculptures then friends these are not for sale.Dalton Ghetti has never sold a piece of art he only gifts them to friends .So if you want one of these then you need to be a friend of his :D

Few more of the sculptures are below.



Alphabets .These 26 letters took him two and half years to complete




Interlinking



Keyring

Interlinked heart

Carved Heart

Hammer

Button

Goblet

Boot

Chair

Cross

Mailbox

Sources:-NewYork Times
The Telegraph

Dalton Ghetti on facebook

Mangoes

Well nothing special or specific its just the mango tree next to my house which is undergoing the various stages we read in the books,the difference is I got to see the changes at close proximity on a day to day basis and I have photographed a few,so thought of sharing...

Flowering stage.The tree is full of flowers.
The photo is taken 25 days back at the begining of the season around 1st Feb 2011

Another view of it.

It's over 25 days now the flowers have turned into mangoes .
Due to unseasonal rain very few have survived a clear effect of global warming

A closer view of the lil ones :)