How to Make a Forked Tongue in a Lizard Wire Sculpture

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"DEB HUGLIN VOGEL: Hi. I'm Debbie Rob--hi, I'm Debbie "The Roboteer," and I'm here for Expert Village. We're having so much fun making this wire sculpture lizard the way Sandy Calder taught me out of one big piece of wire. So it's like a giant safety pin that's really strong, and it has all sorts of tensile strength and kinetic energy, which means that it really can move. Now, it will stand anywhere and you can put it in any position. It could be like Godzilla and stand up on its back feet or do whatever you want. But right now, what we want to do is complete the head. And what I'd like to do is wrap it up the neck and you could pass these eyes, and we're going to go around the head just a bit, because what I want to do, as the very last thing, is to make a little mouth here with a forked tongue. To make a forked tongue--here is where we're finally cutting this big piece of wire. Let's see. I want this one. This is a wire cutter. I'm going to cut the wire, then I'm going to take it and I'm going to fold it like this, and now you need to fold it back one, then squish it and pull it into place. Now, we have a lizard with a forked tongue."