Artistic Pencil Pluckers

The MCA in Chicago has a "Great Pencil Pull" happening going on - art lovers can pluck one of the 28,000 embedded pencils that make up the Damasceno work "Observation Plan".
The work - silhouettes of people observing art - needs to be dismantled to free up much needed space.
Julie Rodrigues Widholm, the MCA curator said: "The artist liked the idea of taking the piece down because now each of the pencils will have a new life with someone else." It costs a dollar donation per pencil - nice little earner that x 28,000.
Visitors were seen to be concentrating on removing their pencils from the "groin areas" of the work.
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