Art of the Brick 2

Four more works by Nathan Sawaya with his short anecdote for each piece.

CELLO: As an attempt to inspire kids to explore music, I created this life-size cello completely out of Lego bricks. Although it is the exact size as a real cello, please don't try to play it, it might look like a cello but it sounds like LEGO! (2009)

COMPUTER:  The arm reaching out is representative of the reach of technology into our lives. I built this sculpture over the course of two years. The original computer was completed in 2006, but I decided to add the arm reaching out of the screen in 2008.

PEACE SYMBOL: What does it take to create peace? All the colours in the world working together, of course! This sculpture was created using thousands of recycled bricks. (2010)

MY BOY: Loss, along with love, is one of the recurring themes in my art.  This particular sculpture was inspired from a  sad story I was told by a parent. After learning of the story, I began working on this sculpture right away, finishing it almost two months later. (2009)

My personal fave is the PEACE SYMBOL for I work in an international community of different nationalities and cultures where respect is highly expected but often not followed. I always hear racial indifferences and there are times that being Asian becomes a disadvantage rather than an asset.

So just in case I will be asked in a beauty pageant, heaven forbids, I will answer the most used answer, yet still unattainable, WORLD PEACE!