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Old 03-06-2003, 11:52 AM   #1
Sergio Ostroverhy Sergio Ostroverhy is offline
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World's largest Fireman Portrait in Pencil: "The Fireman", 79"x99", pencil/paper




Focus on the face.

The face is real. It's the face that carries meaning. In pleasure, in disappointment, it's the face that lifts these weights. But the face is also a mystery. The face is a mask, a story. It's the face of a thousand expressions. It's a face made from rock, the face of a mountain. Eternal. It's happy without smiling, critical without squinting, frightened without showing surprise. This face knows fear, lives with it, inhabits its thorny grip. It wakes up in the middle of the night, mounts a shrieking dragon and dives headfirst into an incendiary fury. It's the face of a hero.

It's the firefighter
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