Behold the crafty seed of the Stork’s Bill or Erodium plant which falls to the ground and uses the power of humidity and a thorny appendage (which turns clockwise when wet and counter-clockwise when dry) to drill itself into the soil like a screw.
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Californian portrait artist and sculptor, Andrew Myers is a patient man.
He draws out a face and pre-drills 8,000 to 10,000 holes, by hand. As he drills in the screws, Myers doesn’t rely on any computer software to guide him, he figures it out as he goes along. “For me, I consider this a traditional sculpture and all my screws are at different depths,” he says.
One of the most challenging parts is getting rid of the flat drawing underneath because he then has to paint over each of the screw heads, individually, so that in the end, the sculpture looks like an actual portrait.