PHILADELPHIA - Kambel Smith’s latest works of art is on display at the Fleisher/Ollman Gallery in Philadelphia.
He recreates popular landmarks from around the country with extreme detail using cardboard. A sculpture of the Woolworth Building in New York City stands taller than Kambel in the gallery.
He says it took him about two months to make. "A lot of hours, I never took no breaks," Kambel explained. Kambel is a self-labeled ‘Autisarian’ – a word he, his brother Kantai, and father Lonnie came up with to re-imagine people living with autism as having superhuman powers.
Kambel says his superpower is to see scale without using any measuring tools. "He doesn’t have to be able to fly or to run like Flash or things like that.