Item from the Associated Press -- "A northern Michigan lady has put her own spin on Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper by making a replica out of laundry lint. Laura Bell of Roscommon collected lint from her dryer and fashioned it into a 14-foot-long, 4-foot tall reproduction of the Italian Renaissance painter's masterpiece."
Well, I've heard that from the trash can come art. Now it's from lint? The lint caught in the laundry dryer? Well, from anywhere can come something very interesting, if one has the talent.
Ms. Bell said that she had to do a lot of laundry to get the lint, eight hundred hours. She brought towels of the colors in the painting to get lint in the colors that she needed, and she spent two hundred hours perfecting her lint "masterpiece."
Ms, Bell's art is bound for one of the Ripley's Believe It or Not! museums, where already on display is a replica of da Vinci's Last Supper, made from a grain of rice, a dime and burned toast.