A decade later he decided to turn them into sculptures.
Students first wrote about their feelings and then translated them into sculptures.
A master of his materials, he used their natural strength to turn clothes into sculpture.
He knew a lot about medieval times, and would try to convert his knowledge into sculpture.
"If I carved people into sculptures for a living, you couldn't make it sound any worse."
Carving stone into sculpture is an activity older than civilization itself.
Incorporating surrounding space into sculpture would become an obsession for him after the war.
Today his breath could be digitally transformed into music or sculpture.
But his art wasn't only about turning squalid architecture into sculpture.
In September 2003, the logs which has been cut down were recovered and transformed into sculptures.