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Garrett Barati LEGO artist Garrett Barati  July 22, 2004
Tifton-  Some use clay and some use stone-- just about anything
to express their creativity.  If a difference between a man and
a boy is how he organizes his toys, then Garrett Barati remains
a boy at 30. "Have an idea. I want to share that idea with
others. What's the best way for me to do it?"  He can't fail
with forty-thousand Lego pieces to use, plus a love affair built
out of necessity. As a kid, he wanted space toys, but didn't get
them. He wanted other toys like transformers, but didn't get
those either. His parents gave him Legos instead, and he had to
create them.  Now, decades later, he has become an artist who
uses the popular toy in his creative projects where he
concentrates on details. "They make people remember things and
it tells a story," he said.  He creates a town, the centerpiece
of his show, a happy town safe