Woman Makes Giant Penny Sculpture Using 84,000 Pennies

Wander Matrich, from Grand Rapids, Michigan, spent three months working on a giant penny sculpture made of 84,000 common pennies.

The story of how an average woman managed to create this unique artwork began in 2006, when Matrich and her family were going through a really tough time. She had just got divorced, lost her house to foreclosure and was an unemployed mother of two daughters, aged 6 and 9. She was literally saving every penny and her girls pitched in the contents of their piggy bank, to help out in these troubled times. The pennies ended up in a plastic water jug, and even after Wander finally found a job, she took $20 from every paycheck, changed them into pennies and kept filling up the water jug.

Things started looking up for Wander and her family, but even though she eventually switched to a savings account, she kept all the pennies, as a reminder of how her fortune had turned around. Then, in 2010, she decided to use her small penny fortune to enter the Grand Rapids ArtPrize competition – she began picking her pennies carefully (throwing away the ones with scratches, marks or paint on them) and gluing them to a wooden frame, in the shape of a giant penny. Even the local bank got involved at one point, offering her brand new pennies from the US Mint, so she could create highlights

She worked 10-14 hours a day, for three months, but the end result was awe-inspiring, and the self-taught artistmanaged to rank sixth out of hundreds of participants at the ArtPrize contest, as well as attract the attention of Ripley’s Believe It or Not, who recently acquired the giant penny. It is made up of 84,000 pennies glued with 22 tubes of adhesive, measures 8 feet in diameter and 10 feet tall, and weighs approximately 1,200 pounds.

“Art was the only way I could tell a mass of people my story , I wanted to share the message that anyone can do this, you just have to start somewhere. What matters isn’t how much you make, but how much you save.” Wander Matrich told Ripley’s.

I’ve seen great coin artworks before, but this is probably the most impressive, mostly because it’s backed by such an inspiring story.

The Mind Blowing Pull Tab Sculptures of Herman Divers

Herman Divers, also known as the master of pull-tab engineering, is known for creating impressive sculptures exclusively out of aluminum pull tabs.

Environmentalists have always preached about the need to recycle metals like aluminum, and Topeka based Herman Divers is one of the few people who listened and decided to do something about it. Using old-fashioned pull tabs that were found on beer and soda cans in the 1970s, he created impressive artworks that are now on display at the Grassroot Art Center, in Kansas.

A retired hospital handyman, Divers developed a unique affinity for pull tabs in the early 1980s, when he asked the hospital’s snack bar attendant to save them for him. “I told her I was going to make a beadspread and she thought I was crazy” Divers remembers about his early days as a pull-tab artist. But he was on to something, because unlike the modern pull tab, the old-fashioned one had a extension that could be wrapped/bent to secure it to another one. Using this process and without any glue or steel reinforcement, Herman Divers spent many of his nights working on some of the most incredible pull-tab artworks I have ever seen.

His unique collection of pull-tab sculptures include replicas of a Harley Davidson motorcycle (made from 179, 200 pull-tabs) and a classic automobile, a set of costumes for him and his wife, as well as pieces of pull-tab furniture. When old pull-tabs became obsolete, Divers started working with bottle caps and buttons creating more beautiful creations, but his aluminum wonders remained his signature works.

And to think it all began with his simple credo “I just figure you can’t get into too much trouble when you’re working”.

Incredible Key Art ay the Coolest Locksmith Shop in New York

Greenwich Locksmiths, one of the oldest locksmith shops in New York City, stands out with itsunusual facade art made of thousands of used keys.

The incredible facade was designed and executed by Phil Mortillaro, owner of Greenwich Locksmith and an expert when it comes to cracking safes. He opened up shop in the West Village back in 1968, and as his shop became famous, he once considered redesigning his common-looking headquarters to look like an impressive classic American building. He got all the approvals he needed, but decided not to go through with the idea, for fear his locksmith shop would have looked more like a Disney World attraction. Instead, he decided to make his workplace unique by decorating it with discarded keys.

Seen from a distance, the patterns on the Greenwich Locksmiths facade look like a bunch of spirals and squiggles, but as soon as you get a little closer and notice the whole thing is covered with tens of thousands of keys, you realize just how impressive it really is. Mr. Mortlillaro created this unique work of art by himself, last October, and his shop – reputed as one of the best in the business – is getting a lot more attention.

Check out more impressive photos of this beautiful facade on Scouting New York, an interesting blog featuring some of the Big Apple’s most intriguing and overlooked attractions.

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