The ‘Halloween Wars’ champion tells PEOPLE he loves working with a medium that ‘doesn’t last’
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- Adam Bierton is a professional pumpkin carver
- During his busy season, he spends up to two days working on just one pumpkin
- He tells PEOPLE exclusively that due to the “ephemeral” nature of the pumpkin, “you have to create and let it go”
Adam Bierton loves pumpkins. More specifically, he loves carving them.
The Halloween Wars champion tells PEOPLE exclusively that he “fell in love with pumpkin carving and Halloween at a very young age.”
Bierton, 42, was born and raised in Rochester, N.Y., and attended high school at the School of the Arts, where he worked with different mediums like clay, plaster, metal and glass…