It is not hard to see that I am always interested in art created using the expected things; those things we expect to see or use everyday, used unexpectedly.  Jennifer Maestre’s sculptures fall into this category.

I use pencils everyday, yes even in this day and age of keyboards, but never have I done anything beyond their intended use except to chew on them. Here is a use for pencils that goes beyond using their graphite filled centers for scribbling numbers or as adult pacifiers.