Creative mash-ups: Wood + animals

[quote] Artist Sergei Bobkov, 55, finishes his 4-monthes daily work with a creation a sculpture of life-sized Asian marmot made from cutting chips from the Siberian cedar at a workshop in a cellar of a local school in the settlement of Kozhany, 207 km (129 miles) southwest of Krasnoyarsk, June 5, 2012. Bobkov, who received a patent on manufacturing art sculptures made of cutting chips, spent four months creating the one of two marmots, using about 50 thousand pieces of Siberian cedar. He has made a total of 16 life-size wooden sculptures of Siberian birds and animals. ~ REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin [/quote]

The amazing thing about materials is that it has infinite possibilities – limited only by the imagination of the artist.

{Via Lost at E Minor}