Down the Street: Artist Left France for Our 'Wide-Open Spaces'

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From his childhood, Pascal remembers the seductive smell of wood. He spent many hours in his grandfather's studio - nestled in Provence, France - watching him create wood sculptures.

"I remember wondering whether this exotic smell was the wood or the materials that my grandfather put on the wood," he said. "After many years of my company in the studio, my grandfather looked up at me with his electric blue eyes and said, 'If you want to become creative, you had better hurry up, because I won't be around forever.' "

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Down the Street: Artist Left France for Our 'Wide-Open Spaces'

"As life works in mysterious ways," he said, "he died the next week."

Pascal took some time to live life after his grandfather's passing. Eventually, he would embark into the world of w...

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