Bruno Walpoth can practically turn wood into flesh.

The Italian artist has a knack for creating haunting, incredibly lifelike sculptures hewn out of wood. His works somehow manage to capture the expressiveness in a person's eyes and the body's fleshy curves.

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Walpoth told The Huffington Post in an email this week that wood basically runs in his veins. "In our valley there is a 400-year-old tradition of wood-sculpting culture," he wrote in German. "Both my grandfather and my uncle were wood sculptors, and so I grew up with this medium."

He added, however, that wood is "very hard to work with," and it takes a "great delicacy" to make the material "appear like skin." He says it takes him about two months to complete a life-sized figure. SUBSCRIBE AND FOLLOW Get the top stories emailed every day. Newsletters may offer personalized content or advertisements. Privacy Policy Newsletter Please enter a valid email address Thank you for signing up! You should receive an email to confirm your subscription shortly. There was a problem processing your signup; please try again later Twitter

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