In his home workshop in Stone Mountain, Georgia, Ayokunle Odeleye’s larger-than-life pieces of public art often start as a small wooden mock-up, that he shapes with a lathe.
The finished product can wind up soaring into the air.
Like the bronze monument called Spirit, Family, Community in Peoplestown that went up before the 1996 Olympics.
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