(3rd Place – Sculpture)
School: Homer High School
Grade: 12th
This piece is based off the idiom: “A Penny for your Thoughts” and mechanizes humans and their thought process. The gears, levers, and coin slot make the bust into a machine and it also comments on the value humans place on money.
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