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Chen's made bookends peppered with bricks and bits of chain, but the main ingredient is always stone — hence there are boxes filled with chunks of the stuff all over he and Williams's studio. They find them at a nearby stone yard, where they're basically considered garbage. "It's all stuff no one could use," Chen says. "If you even just walk around a stone yard, you'll normally find little chunks like these on the street."