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sunglasses and baskets, and sorts them into many colour groups. Then she ties every piece of plastic to a wire armature, until she achieves the shape she first envisioned. Ganz's works range from 18 inches to 8 feet long and the most complicated ones take up to a month to finish and can contain hundreds of pieces.
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when she was nine years old and lived there for almost five years. At the age of 13, her family moved back to Japan, and then moved to Hong Kong. Soon after, Ganz came to the United States to attend university. Up to high school Ganz never graduated from the same school she started in. Constant
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