Every year, people walked from far away from the wide watch This large pencil is written

John Higgins loves to think about a pencil that is a total of six meters in his former grass as a piece of pop.

“If you think of POP art, you think of Andy Warhol or Cave Odenberg. I mean that these wealthy artists. As it happened Visitor Stephanie Skderis.

“That’s exactly what this is.”

Once a year, a large piece of POP is stealing the working community’s performance. Hundreds – or sometimes even thousands – people make their way to the Higgins house in Eminneapolis to look at a large pencil looking at a large pencil.

“It’s fun. It’s no fun. No agenda. It is not a commercial event. Not any ticket,” said Higgins. But by the Word of the mouth, I think, the people come, and really enjoy them. “

The Great Pencil was a large tree

On Saturday he noticed the fourth anniversary of the fourth year. However, the origin of the carved group returned to 2017, when a sudden air storm beat the home and ripping the attractive oak tree of his former law.

The tree, says, was about 180 years old.

“That was very difficult to see that happened,” he said. “It’s very sad, I’ll say it.”

He remembers Oak of Oak’s decided in the middle of the cyclone afterward.

“It was so much looked, you know, almost sooinriaye – just to listen to the wood and look, at night, like a broken skeleton.”

So he and his wife, Amy Higgins, decided to change it into ART. Registered the SCUulfor Culptis Curtis Ingraders Ingraddivolstad to turn it into a classic ther brands of the Brand No. 2 pencil.

“Why is a pencil? Everybody is using a pencil,” Amy said. “Everyone knows a pencil. You see school, you see it in the people’s work, or, easily available to everyone, and everyone can say something, and everyone can do what they want.”

As soon as they were taken with a pencil, Higgins said they came with the idea of ​​my arrest. So IngressSryesdead also named a pencil pencil of work.

“There are four large meters [and] You massage a hundred pounds, “said Higgins.” We suggest that, and we throw it a few times and a pencil blames. “

‘Life is too short’ missing a realroning

The first year they did this, the Higgins said, a few people agreed, especially in the environment.

But over the years, he says, He has grown by the word of the mouth and the social media. Last year, about 1,000 people said there were. This year, she balanced the crowd in many billion, with people from the outside, and in other countries.

Some people were dressed as pencils or erasers. Two Swiss Alphorn players give part of entertainment. The administrators remind us of the Minneapolis icon, the nearest Superstar Officer of Superstar, by giving purple pencils to the future of his 67th birthday.

Rachel Hyman said flying out of Chicago on Friday to get the event, a friend.

“One man speak the pencil in his department and this happens?” Hyman said on Saturday while wearing a pencil dress. “Yes, I’ll be part of you. How can you do it? Life is too short.”

The Social Sacrifice

You may be wondering why the biggest pencil picture may require even the extension. Higgins means tip, while not done by leading granite, depending on the weather for a whole year.

But, in particular, he says, it’s figurative.

“This is a public pencil. Incredity, there is a chance, you know, updated, new beginning, promise to write another note,” he said. “People love that message.”

With each competition, a pencil is short and loses part of art. Ingradstad, Sculptor, says everything is a point.

“As a custom, you must offer something,” said Involdstad. “We therefore release part of the pencil communication, so that we can give you that coming to the audience.

So how many years is it until nothing but a small lump with brightly bright eraser? And what happened then?

“We have no answers to that, and we are good with that,” said Higgins. “But today, for this moment, we’ll do what we have and do more from it.”