For most people, dryer lint is an annoyance. Not for Sandy Buffie, who uses lint as a material for "found object" sculptures, like that of the Lebron James bust that earned her a degree of fame last year. Seeing as how James and the Cavaliers are back in the NBA championship for the third year in a row against the Golden State Warriors—and not doing too well, either—Buffie decided to break the lint sculpture back out. The 30-pound lint bust is as strange and interesting as ever, and further proof that the art world has an interesting fetish for basketball.
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Soon after, Buffie, who now calls herself "The Lint Lady," began experimenting with a lint, water, and glue mixture to develop life-sized busts. Apart from her lint Lebron, Buffie has also made sculptures of Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow, Einstein, Jay Leno, The Wolfman, and Nascar driver Dale Earnhardt.Click here to see more of Sandy Buffie's designs.Related:Here's Why Contemporary Art Is Obsessed with BasketballTyson Reeder Unveils a Basketball for Art BallersBlue Crystal Basketballs Memorialize the Future of the Game