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"The acclaimed outdoor sculpture garden at Wichita State University is about to grow -- by a millipede.
"To be exact, a 20-foot-long, 5-foot-wide and 4-foot-tall millipede, wearing a bowler hat and little round shoes on its many feet.
"The university has commissioned internationally known sculptor Tom Otterness, a former Wichitan, to create the work to be installed in 2008.
"'To me this millipede is more the kind of thing that Tom is famous for,' Butler said. 'It is a little weird, it's cute, and it's a little threatening, this giant bug that could eat you -- but it's also wearing little shoes and a bowler hat. It's whimsical and frightening at the same time.'"
