I was at a high school carnival in Hawaii last weekend which had an art gallery for charity. I came upon the amazing wood work art by Mark Chai. Above is a piece, Umeke, which used no adhesives or fasteners, just pure maple wood. I had to sneak these pictures, since I didn’t want to even risk asking the gallery curators whether it would be alright to take a picture and essentially give free promotion to this artist. This raises an interesting point about the state of copyright in the US… how has it gotten to the point where we have to worry about taking a picture of something anybody could walk in and see? Anyways, visit Mark Chai’s site for more amazing pictures of his work.

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See Also: Legged Bicycle,Art in an age of mechanical reproduction,Prior-Art-O-Matic,

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