Miami-based artist NFN Kalyan has created several new sculptural portraits for his ongoing series entitled ‘Nature of The Beast’. Each of the 200 pound sculptures in the series is comprised of 20+ panes of engraved starphire glass, lit with LED and contained in a walnut base. The faces featured in each work are hand drawn by Kalyan, then etched into glass by laser.The three featured here are as follows:

‘Chuck’, is the fourth in the series

Glass, wood, steel

27″ x 25″ x 26″

‘Barack’, 44th President of the United States of America, Barack Obama is the second in the serie

glass, wood, steel

27″ x 25″ x 23

‘Kundun, ‘His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, also known as Kundun – leader of the Tibetan peopleis the third in the series

glass, wood, steel

27″ x 25″ x 20″

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