Small Blue Bear.

• Author: Peterson, Eric
• Position: Colorado cool STUFF - Lawrence Argent creates miniatures - Brief article

Five years ago, while proposing his public art masterpiece I see what you mean, a.k.a. the Big Blue Bear, at the Colorado Convention Center, sculptor and DU professor Lawrence Argent had a miniature prototype made from his digital design.

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"A kid picked it up and liked it," Argent said. "I thought about how they looked at it in their childlike eyes."

So after installing the gargantuan azure ursine in summer 2005, Argent and his wife, Anne, decided to make miniature replicas--"abstractions through miniaturization"--as souvenirs. They found a contract manufacturer in China and started making scale replicas in two sizes, one roughly six inches...