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In California, anything can be art-even smog. Environmental artist Kim Abeles is making "smog sculpture" out of treated Plexiglas on which she layers paper stenciled with a human heart or lungs. Then she places the Plexiglas outside to collect the kind of debris southern Californians breathe every day. After 30 days she removes the paper--and what's left is a sculpture created out of particulates. Abeless smog-art project, sponsored by the California consumer-affairs department's auto-repairs bureau, is meant to remind folks to obey anti-smog laws. What's next: Weight Watchers sponsored "cellulite art"?
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