Tag: Upcycled

  • Maximum’s Billex turns bank notes into furniture

    Money manufacturers the world over are forever contending with counterfeiters. Before the U.K. introduced a new pound coin in 2017, for example, the earlier version was easy enough to fake that there were tens of millions of fraudulent copies in circulation. The same goes for paper bank notes, which over the years have been printed read more

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  • Nature Made Flesh: Tamara Kostianovsky Turns Upcycled Fabrics Into Visceral Sculptures – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Somebody asked me recently if I had washed my father’s clothes before using them in the sculptures,’” she says. “I didn’t. They still contain his cells.” These meat sculptures, part of an early series entitled Actus Reus, which is Latin for “guilty act,” were followed by Nature Made Flesh, a project started by Kostianovsky after read more

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