1. Children like to carve faces out of them. 2. When he went back to jail in February, he fabricated a doll from toilet paper and towel strings, and carved faces in the soap with his fingernails. 3. But why did they carve faces into vegetables to begin with? 4. Carve a face if desired. 5. Cut the top off, carve a face and scoop out the seeds and flesh so that the container fits snugly inside. 6. In times past, Irish children carved faces in Halloween lanterns made from potatoes and turnips. 7. Later, in Scotland and Ireland, people celebrated by carving grotesque faces on potatoes and turnips. 8. Shapiro, whose work is being shown at the LiebmanMagnan gallery in Manhattan this month, carves faces into tofu, which lasts about two weeks. 9. They work diligently, contorting their own faces as they try to muscle the tools into the thick-fleshed gourds to carve faces. 10. You think you have trouble carving a face on a hollowed-out pumpkin. |