One particularly inspiring exhibition that I visited earlier this year was at the Victoria and Albert museum, the Power of Making had a large and specially crafted range of objects varying from robotics to handmade clothing and even everyday essentials such as saddles for riding.
Although there were many different types of crafts, there was one that stood out to me as a thing of beauty and immense skill by Dalton Ghetti, called 'Alphabet'. While a pencil is a conventional tool for artists to create work Ghetti has used them in a completely different manner where the pencils themselves are the works of art. Each of the pencils is carved into to create the incredibly fine lettering on top, which I feel has a quaint quality to them as well as being mindboggling in their technical skill used in their creation.
But what I find most amazing is the process he uses to create the miniature works, he uses needles, blades and special knives to form the tiny sculptures and he took around two and a half years to complete his alphabet. Although lettering isn’t the only thing he sculpts as he has done things such as suspended hearts, buttons and chairs all on from the lead in a pencil.
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