Barry X Ball

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Barry X Ball is an American sculptor who's been working on a series of pieces recently based on famous historical sculpture, his "Masterpieces".  Based, in this case, means he scans the original, generates a 3d model of it, tweaks the model and then uses that model to create his new version in a new type of stone. 

An example of this would be of the Borghese Hermaphrodite, a 2nd C CE Roman marble on a 17th C mattress which resides in the Louvre.  Ball has taken the original, reversed it (side to side), subtly tweeked the form of the body, and created it anew in black Belgian marble.

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CNC machine at work carving the new Herm (source)

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