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In the mid-1950s, the Scottish sculptor, collagist, and printmaker Eduardo Paolozzi developed a process of making figural sculpture he called "the metamorphosis of rubbish." He began by pressing obsolete found objects in plaster, and casting the impressions in wax sheets. Out of these forms he would assemble heads and figures and re-cast them in bronze. Paolozzi’s sculptures from this period depict human beings literally stamped and shaped by the objects they discard. Machine age men, brutalized and misshapen, they are products of their material environment.