These incredibly detailed sculptures were made by UK artist David Mach, who uses thousands of matchsticks pressed into a clay mold to form the likeness of Chaplin, Marilyn and Ben Kingsley, among others.
Mach uses Japanese matchsticks because their heads come in all sorts of different colors, and color is definitely an important part of his works (note the crazy color combos of the Marilyn busts at the link).
Mach feels that a fun way to finish a show is to set one of these beauties ablaze and let it burn away, so he sets aside a few from every show to torch. Now that's what I call hot headed!
http://www.davidmach.com/galleries/sculpture-matchheads/ --via DesignTAXI
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Marilyn Kingsley?
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I love the grid of Marilyn heads. I didn't realise matches came with so many head colours. I'd love to see a video of one going up in flames!
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