Video: Playing with matches. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, built with 600,000 matches
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
This is only for small children, matches are not a toy. And for experienced and serious adults - even what! So, for a resident of Iowa Patrick Acton there is no entertainment more exciting, and the constructor is more interesting than a regular matchbox. For over 30 years he has been transforming matches into works of art, large and small sculptures that have brought him fame. The self-taught sculptor is familiar to readers of Kulturologii. RF as the author of the castle Minas Tirith from the Lord of the Rings trilogy. But on his account there is one more, no less famous castle - Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from the works of J. K. Rowling. The author has been building this large-scale sculpture for more than three years, for which he needed about 600,000 matches and 68 liters of glue. As a model, the sculptor used the model of Hogwarts that could be seen in the Harry Potter series filmed in Hollywood. In order to reproduce the legendary castle of young wizards as accurately as possible, Patrick Acton had to re-read all the books about Harry Potter and from time to time flip through them to clarify one or another detail of the structure. As a result, the matchlock became an exact copy of its "big brother" from the cinema.
Fans of fantasy stories about the Boy Who Lived will find it easy to identify the towers that housed the houses of Slytherin, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Gryffindor. The tower in which the owls lived is similar to itself, the hospital wing and the tower of astronomy are recognizable. And the famous bridge and the Quidditch field are exactly what every fan of witchcraft and wizardry imagined it to be. But the Goblet of Fire in this school is strictly prohibited.
To date, Hogwarts is the largest and most complex match sculpture ever built by Patrick Acton. You can see this masterpiece and other sculptures from matches in the Matchstick Marvels Museum (Iowa) or on the author's website.
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