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Toothpick Sculptures

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It's an art which requires more patience than watching paint dry. Steven J. Backman has parlayed a throwaway childhood hobby into an improbable and seemingly impossible career: toothpick art. The San Francisco native uses thousands of the thin little wooden sticks and a bit of well-placed glue to create finely-crafted, free-standing impressionistic and abstract sculptures. This miniature exhibit in the city's tallest building (in the Fifth Avenue Gallery and Lobby Windows on the ground floor) displays bronzed versions of his work, which include names like 'Harmony,' 'Eternity' and 'Unity.' The originals induce mind-boggling awe from even the most sophisticated museum-goers: 30,000 toothpicks make up a 13-foot Golden Gate Bridge (pictured). And he used 10,000 toothpicks to create a 4.5-foot, radio-controlled yacht with working rudders. Twenty-two toothpicks depict a likeness of Billy Crystal. "The Essence of Patience" is the motto Backman uses for his painstaking work. Perhaps an alternative would be "Floss before coming." -- Yon Motskin (Photo: courtesy ToothpickArt.com)

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