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# Popular Science Magazine, May 2016

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They say that the question "How do you create your work of " the great Michelangelo replied : " I take a stone and cut off all unnecessary ." Jonty Hurwitz brought this principle to the limit, leaving

Full article in Russian.

### Disappearing Sculpture: Jonty Hurwitz

They say that the question "How do you create your work of " the great Michelangelo replied : " I take a stone and cut off all unnecessary ." Jonty Hurwitz brought this principle to the limit, leaving no accidental microns .

Written by: Roman Fishman

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