DANNY KAPLAN - ALCHEMIST

I started my professional career as a teenager working in an art department doing paste-up and keylining.  Needless to say, the exacto blade became a natural extension of my body. I also spent a lot of my early art and design career making stuff out of other stuff. I've never been able to walk by a shiny object sticking out of dumpster...ever.

    My father, an avid antique collector, bought out an old shuttered doll factory in Indiana thinking there might be a market for misc heads, hands, feet and legs. There wasn’t really. So I hand picked through thousands of pieces, filled up two giant suitcases and started making...