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David Becks highly original, intricate and kinetic artwork combines sculpture, painting, textiles, and mechanics on a scale that creates a genre all its own. Curious Worlds takes us into David Becks magical universe, to watch as he creates minutely detailed and often humorous animals, people and entire scenes that inspire profound wonder, delight and awe. A skilled woodworker, sculptor, painter and craftsman, Beck is recognized as a genuine American original. He is the only living artist to have three solo exhibits at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and his work is sought after by private art collectors across the country.
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00:23You don't really need a knowledge of music to play this thing.
00:26If you have a sense of rhythm or something like that, you can make up things.
00:31So, you blow into them.
00:39And then you have the ever popular guys in blue suits who kick bells.
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01:14I always had a problem with where I was living.
01:16Like, I would be asked to leave all the time.
01:18So, I had to find a new place.
01:20It was a lot easier to make really tiny things than putting them in a suitcase.
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01:32For sculpture and the things that I do, there's a lot of problem solving.
01:36What I try to do is I try to consider everything.
01:40It's a lot to think about.
01:42So, thousands and thousands of decisions, you know.
01:45Usually the wings.
01:46And then I, and the legs.
01:48I've been working on this for about five months, six months, something like that.
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01:56Have you ever asked David, where do you, where do you get these ideas?
02:01Where do you, has he ever, have you ever asked him?
02:03And has he given you the pat answer?
02:05I have a book, Ideas for Skinny Sculptors.
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