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Skyline Nearly Complete
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Jen Carlson
Published Oct 30, 2009
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Photos by Katie Baker
Artist Stephen Wiltshire has been hard at work this week drawing the Manhattan skyline from memory over at Pratt. He only took a 20 minute helicopter ride prior to getting started, "during which time he impressed on his mind thousands of landmarks, great and small." He told the Brooklyn Paper: “My arm starts to hurt sometimes, but I push on.”
Reader Katie Baker stopped by yesterday and sent us the above photos, she says, "the amount of work he was able to complete in just four short days was incredibly inspiring." Wiltshire is scheduled to be finished by 5 p.m. today.
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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