misplaced pieces of crushed gold strawflower petals from a giant foam rose. “I like to see how they develop,” she said. “I’m just thrilled to death to feel I’ve been a part of it.

But it all begs the question, why? The foam finger began with an Iowa high school student named Steve Chmelar. In 1971, Chmelar built a giant hand from hardware cloth and paper mache with an ...

airport flooded a nearby street with billowing mountains of foam, creating an almost irresistible white foam-scape that reached the top of stop signs. The fire retardant foam, technically an ...