How-To: Grow a Portrait Gourd

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How-To: Grow a Portrait Gourd

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Sean over at MAKE posted this great Instructables project, by fellow MAKE writer Tim Anderson, about making a gourd portrait based on the unbelievable work of Zhang Cairi. As Sean points out, the possibilities are virtually endless!
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6 thoughts on “How-To: Grow a Portrait Gourd

  1. Katie Swindler says:

    WOW! That is incredible! I’ve got to try that!

  2. Craig Druitt says:

    To be understood and appreciated beyond language, by many others, is among the highest of compliments possible. It is wonderful when creativity transcends the bounds of cultural relativism.

  3. Craig Druitt says:

    To be understood and appreciated beyond language, by many others, is among the highest of compliments possible. It is wonderful when creativity transcends the bounds of cultural relativism.

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