We had a sculptor around here in New Hampshuh who liked to work with exploded metal. Sylvana Cenci, locally known as "the dynamite lady".

"Dangerous? Oh, my goodness yes! But I still have all my fingers, no?" and "I feel a direct involvement with the material— the explosion is immediate, and yet controlled, violent and exact." and "My greatest ambition is to explode an immense wall in stainless steel, to interest the architects with something of long duration and artistic beauty."

I'm fortunate enough to have met her at some large private music parties years ago. She passed away in 2000. Too young -- makes me want to blow something up.

Linn