Pencil Skull No.2, Based

Two hundred sixty-one No. 2 pencils, and not one test filled out.

This pencil skull, No. 2, is contemporary, made of 261 No. 2 pencils glued and carved, on a base. Skulls have long served artists as reminders that time runs out. Using the ordinary school pencil, tool of exams and homework, brings the lesson home. The pencils rise upright through the skull, carved so their graphite and wood form flame-like streaks over the brow and jaw. Above the forehead, the orange barrels and pink erasers remain intact. Eleven inches high and five and a quarter wide.

Erasers attached. No one is taking it back.