Transforming these video stills into a vast, hand-carved one-off can take up to a year.
"Come here," she says, conspiratorially, in low-pitched Italian, taking me by the arm to inspect the back of a vast hand-painted stage curtain.
They were also early urban planners, who used astronomical alignments to lay out a low-scale metropolis of 10-20,000 people, featuring a town centre with broad public plazas and key buildings set atop vast, hand-built earthen mounds.
PANZANO IN CHIANTI, ITALY — Back when the young butcher still wished he were a veterinarian, his improbably vast hands trembled when he cut.
The visuals match the musical bombast: the screen at the back of the stage shows vast hands with strings attached to them, as if the band playing in front of them are puppets being manipulated; inflatable balls, streamers and confetti rain down on the audience, fireworks shoot into the sky.
Just outside, a graffiti-covered wall includes a striking illustration of two vast hands clutching a can of spray paint.
Control over the environment is depicted as taking place on a vast scale, hand in hand with the absence of any natural life, with artificial animals substituting for their extinct predecessors.
To dismiss it as rough justice is to miss the point: public anger about the vast sums handed out to many bankers and bosses is great, growing – and justified.
This core issue should not be confused with a debate over sexism in sport, or a discussion on the corrosive impact of vast riches handed to its leading practioners.
He also oversaw a new phase of the vast subsidy hand-out that is the Common Agricultural Policy, where his loathing of big government did lead him to curb the demands of farmers a little.
