Nathan Sawaya--Now I Lay My Brick To Sleep......

Nathan Sawaya (born: July 10, 1973- ) in Colville, Washington and raised in Veneta, Oregon, is not your typical artist, who not only sculptures custom three-dimentional models and large-scale mosaics of everyday like items, but uses standard Lego toy bricks of various colors to accomplish his ingenious, intrinsic art formations.

When he was just 5 years old, he received his first Lego set for Christmas, and he stopped everything else and started building things with his newfound joy. Nathan immediately began creating a 36 square foot Lego city in his parent's living room, where it remained untill he left home. The Lego city was one of the ways he explored his creativity as a child and kept adding on pieces to it up until he left for college.

He came into national prominence in 2004, when he won a nationwide search for a professional Lego Master Model Builder. Nathan worked for the Lego company for 6 months and eventually branched off and opened his own art studio in New York, whereby recognized officially by The Lego Group, as a: Lego Certified Professional.

Today, his one-of-a-kind-in-the-world art creations are commisioned by companies, individuals, museums and galleries.

His works take many different forms, such as: a 53-foot movie billboard that required a half

million bricks, a life-size Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton, a 7-foot replica of the Brooklyn Bridge, a large black and white self-portrait, a functional air conditioner and computer to name a few.

Sawaya's important message is - do what makes you happy and "follow your dreams".