24.Sep.2009 Holy Jesus-piece, Batman! That’s one blinged out Crucifix.
So what do you do with wood, foam, some copper tubing, and 250,000 Swarovski crystals? Naturally, you recreate the crucifixion of Jesus in a way that would bring a tears of joy to Liberace himself… duh.
Chicago artist Quinn Gregory created this piece, named “Infinite Hope”, in just over a year. The actual sculpting took only four and a half months. However, encrusting the sculpture with 250,000 Swarovski crystals took close to ten months. That’s a lot of hot gluing, people.
Rumor has it that Gregory sold his soul to the devil in exchange for the crystals, and then conceptualized and created the sculpture to atone for the deal. After all, even at wholesale, the entire lot of crystals would have cost Gregory close to $8,500. We would have just sold the crystals and gone on vacation to Tahiti, but to each his own.
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