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Sawaya's best-known piece, featuring 11,014 bricks. Sawaya writes that kids like it "probably because yellow guts spilling onto the floor looks cool."
The piece looks just as impressive from behind. Sawaya writes, "For me, this piece is about the metamorphosis I have been through on my journeys."
Featuring 4628 bricks, this hangs above the gallery on wires.
This artist's setting in the corner of a gallery room looks ordinary from a distance, but is shocking up close. Everything you see here is made from LEGO bricks. The drawers on the right and even the floor are all bricks!
The piece used 3720 bricks. Sawaya writes, "What does it take to create Peace? All the colors in the world working together, of course!"
Sawaya writes, "This piece is literally my nightmare." Uses more than 15,000 bricks.
This green figure sits by an open chair. A banner above encourages visitors to sit in the empty chair and share their photographs online.
These hang above the gallery on wires. Block counts: 4004, 4004, and 7660.
This piece is truly massive, taking up an entire room. It uses 80,020 bricks, and is more than 20 feet long. Sawaya writes, "It took me an entire summer to build and nearly drove me crazy trying to make it work."
This piece contains 62,750 bricks. The bricks flowing behind the dress hang on wires.
The artist is a Portland native who now lives in New York City. Homecoming is visually patterned on the distinctive look of Portland's PDX airport carpet. Sawaya writes, "It is amazing how a simple pattern can go on to remind and represent more than an airport, but an entire city, and entire region, even a way of living." This piece was created for the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry.