A 3-foot piranha steered Troy Pillow’s art career.
After spending a few weeks experimenting with metal and welding in a rented garage in 1995, he was excited to take the metal sculpture home to his apartment.
Up to that point, Pillow was learning about his new-found passion for art, feeling free to make a mess, he said. But the biggest lesson came when he discovered the piranha wouldn’t fit through his apartment door…