The Crowded Planet

"The Crowded Planet series is composed of hundreds of tiny "men" - the stick figures we drew as children. If you take the top two arms and pull them together you create the kanji character for man - nin or jin or hito.  I compress all these tiny "men" together and form the ball which is This Crowded Planet. There are probably 120 in the series now as  I have been working on them for 13 years!"

 - Carol Westfall

   

At Sofa 2005 three of these "Crowded Planets" entered the permanent collection of the Racine Art Museum in Wisconsin.