The objects that I made out of bottles
My idea from the “up-cycling” project was to make an item out of trach that made it valuable so that it would be kept. The challenge was to do it with a glass beer bottle. So I made these three objects that are kind of related and try to maintain some connection to the object that they came from. It’s one of those things where the farther from the original form it gets, the less efficient the process gets (although glass shops are by definition, huge bottomless pits of energy consumption, probably negating the environmentally friendly aspect of this entire project). I was also interested in making something that was no longer a traditional “vessel” out of the bottle, but what I ended up with were a cup (very “traditional vessel”), a bottle shaped jar with a lid, and something that I’m not quite sure what it is, but could possibly make a nice lampshade. All kind of disappointing in terms of straying from the vessel thing although the lampshad starts to go somewhere.
