Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Dancing Potatoes

 This is the potato music box:

Juliette Warmenhoven of NL created this project to showcase the beauty and spectacle of plant growth. Juxtposing sprouting potatoes or bonsai trees with various shades of seafoam-colored plastic pleases me greatly. It has that doughy, silicone, Matthew Barney feel.
Note: Though she was inspired by found plastic objects, she made all of the components herself out of liquid plastic and fiberglass.


germination station:
 
If that's no enough, she also made these vases, inspired by insects and the meant to mimic their coatings with these custom glazes:
found on sightunseen, where you can read more about this project.
Her site, where you can see the book from whence these images came.

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