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An art teacher once said that all sculptures had a pipe inside. He may even have
said a stovepipe.
That was such a provocation that during the cellulose period it had to be put to the
ultimate test. The early ones clearly do have that pipe shape in them, but it gradually
turned into a straitjacket that could and had to be burst out of.
Although the mobiles and the most recent standing figures all started off with a
cylindrical chicken-wire template, they are streets away from the pipe shape. A metamorphosis, so to speak.
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