This sculpture is part of a larger “Deer Family” installation together with a Fawn and Doe

     

The white tailed deer, as typically seen in Brooklyn snowfall (below) …

 

 

Building it

This sculpture is over 5 feet tall and contains 46,563 LEGO pieces.  It took my assistants Jung Ah and Ji Sun over 215 hours to design and build.  Three of us spent over a week just working on the expression of the eyes.

 

 

 

The sculpture is built around a custom-welded metal armature, and every LEGO piece is glued one-by-one.