BANGKOK -- Saruta "Pin" Kiatparkpoom's workshop in Bangkok rattles and clangs to the sound of crashing metal. Great big steel grills are bent, twisted and welded together under a fountain of sparks and smoke as Pin gives life to her newest creation -- a 3-meter-wide chandelier that will hang in a high-end beauty shop in downtown Bangkok.
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Thai metal sculptor Saruta "Pin" Kiatparkpoom stands between her two welders at her workshop in outer Bangkok. (Photo by Pattrica Lipatapanlop)
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