Upcycled glass

With some foil tape and a hot iron, I can make almost anything into a stained glass piece. This fish was made from upcycled bottles that were recovered from Mausund Feltstasjon on the very western coast of Norway.

Unlike the other pieces for this exhibition, this one just kept growing. The smashed bottle pieces were large and thus, the fish became very large. It sits on its dual-pinned mounting and is stronger than it looks. The pieces are interlocked to give it structural stability.

This was recently featured in the exhibition ‘Ocean Exploration—Aftermath of Humanity’, a themed exhibit on ocean trash. It is powerful and important… let’s change this!

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