Lego artist creations built from bricks

Just like all of nature is interconnected, these intricate LEGO sculptures are built from nearly 500,000 bricks and are the first exhibition of their kind on display at Reiman gardens in Iowa.

The 14 displays range from six inches high to nearly eight-feet long, with the largest sculpture, a mother bison, made up from 45,143 individual bricks of the popular children's toy.
 

Created by master LEGO artist and sculptor Sean Kenney and entitled 'Nature Connects', Reiman Gardens at Iowa State University will be the first public garden in the U.S. to display sculptures made from LEGO bricks.

Based out of New York, Keeney is one of only eleven artists certified to officially work with LEGO, known as LEGO Certified Builders.

The pieces are glued together one-by-one by Kenney and his team of assistants, and are supported by steel frames.
 

Each of the themed displays at the gardens is an exploration of nature and how it is affected by its environment and man.

The bison and calf are literal representations of what happens if man comes close to almost eliminating a species because of their interconnectedness to their environment, the prairie.

While the fox and the rabbit are meant to show two species closely linked by the food-chain and their ecosystem.
 

With his work having been featured on television, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BBC news and Good Morning America, Sean Keeney is one of the preeminent LEGO artist on Earth.

In 2005, Sean was named as the first person in the world to have professional LEGO artist status and he also runs MOCpages.com, the world's largest LEGO fan community.

In his Queens, New York studio, Sean has access to around 1.5 million LEGO pieces at any one time and the biggest sculpture he has created was a polar bear made from 95,000 pieces.