Pool Cue Sticks Skull, Carved

A skull built out of pool cues, every tip still blue.

This carved skull is made from pool cue sticks and is contemporary. Skulls have served as reminders of mortality in art for centuries, and contemporary makers often build them from unexpected materials. Dozens of cue ends are bundled upright, their tapered shafts gathered into a crown, while the lower ends are carved together into a single face with deep eye sockets, a hollow nose and a full row of teeth. The wood keeps its natural browns and grain. A slim black rod lifts it above a round black base. It is 3.13 inches wide, 3 deep and 10 high.

The house always wins, eventually.