The Strangest Art Exhibitions From Around the World

The Ultimate Goodbye Present

“The artist who recreated himself,” Hananuma Masakichi, sculpted a statue of himself out of wood when he learned he was dying of TB. The sculpture, made of between 2,000-20,000 pieces of tiny dark wood was meant to be a goodbye present to his wife, so he would always be with her.

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