Scott Weaver is a beast. Using a household item most use to pick Butterfingers out of their teeth, he has made a career, and most famously, a dynamic living model of the city he loves. With San Francisco as his muse, Weaver invested 35 years and 100,000 toothpicks from all over the world to recreate the city his family has been a part of for three generations.

Weaver wove together local landmarks with family history to create a dense toothpick sculpture that features multiple “tours” of the city. The video below will make it more clear, but he actually rolls ping-pong balls through the sculpture to take viewers on different adventures through the hilly terrain of the SFC; hence the name of the installation, Rolling Through The Bay. I didn’t know people did toothpick art beyond the third grade, but I’m certainly glad Weaver stayed with this project and translated his love for place into an intricate and imaginative piece of art in a league of it’s own.

All other photos by Brandi DeMattei

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