Whimsey

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Ceiling Installation/Piano Splash

Imagine that her 6’ Steinway Grand piano went through a melt, oozed upward through the draperies and out across the living room ceiling. Bolt it there and title it "Piano Splash." The 5" height x 7’ length x 7’ width sculpture is made of old piano parts and mixed media.

More: Piano Revival

Train a la Escher: $5,000

Jig-Sawed and Double-Sided Sticky: Once there was little girl — about 5. She had a big brother, 10 years older. His birthday present one year was a model train set. Would he let her play with it? NO-O-O-O!! Don’t touch it — you’ll break it!!! Besides, you’re a girl!

1950's Model: Priceless

"In 1952, at age 20, I married," she says. "And I asked my husband Max about an ad I’d seen in the paper for a modeling agency and school. ‘Do you think I could do that?’ I said to him. He told me to go downtown and get a contract, and he’d look it over." For the next 14 years she modeled, and after that did layout for an offset printer; she was even a stage actress for a little while.