MADE ON EARTH

The world of backyard technology

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BRICK MENAGERIE

SEANKENNEY.COM

You can jazz up your garden in lots of ways: A bench; a tasteful birdbath; a storm-resistant lawn gnome.

Or a bison that’s the size of an NBA player and is made of 45,143 Legos.

Artist Sean Kenney’s solo exhibition, Nature Connects, is touring botanical gardens and zoos all over the U.S. It features huge foxes, frogs, butterflies, and bees constructed entirely of the Danish building blocks.

“Unlike traditional sculpture, you can’t just carve out a shape or add to a surface,” Kenney explains. ...

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