Blue-collar Sculptor
Dallasite Mac Whitney is his own one-man construction crew - producing towering steel-plate sculptures.
Writer-at-large Michael Ennis is a longtime Dallas resident whose writing for Texas Monthly has included award-winning art criticism and political commentary as well as in-depth reporting on business and national defense. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, with a degree in history and a former Rockefeller Foundation fellow in museum education, he is also the New York Times best-selling author of historical novels that have been published in twenty languages worldwide. He is currently working on a “historical novel set in the future” about the breakup of the United States, the transformation of politics and culture by deeply immersive virtual reality, and the competition among next-generation tech giants to develop human-level artificial intelligence.
Dallasite Mac Whitney is his own one-man construction crew - producing towering steel-plate sculptures.
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By Michael Ennis and Suzanne Winckler
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From China, with kid gloves.