Artist Scott Fife wanted to make a sculpture to capture the big personality of his coonhound puppy, Leroy. Weighing in at 500 pounds, the finished sculpture is much larger-than-life. Fife, who lives and works in Seattle, Washington, created Leroy, the Big Pup by hand from cardboard, screws, and glue. This was no small task. “I would press my whole body against a sheet of cardboard so I could screw it down,” Fife explains. He wanted to convey the pup’s playful personality. Says the artist, “I pretty much thought I would try to do this piece of him as a puppy, a really oversized piece that would reference his vision of himself—bigger than the center of the world.”