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"Porcelain Bottles is a growing collection of both dish soap and scientific bottles cast in porcelain and glazed in celadon. The porcelain transforms the bottles into precious artifacts and emphasizes their sculptural forms."

How precious these are might be up for debate. So, are these art, or craft or recycling at too-much expense? She also frosts cupcakes as performance art.

If you really want a detergent bottle as a vase, grab the spray paint.

I don't think I saw anything indicating this was a form of recycling... and it's very clear that this is not to be confused with recycling or even craft. Porcelain is by nature, "precious," and merely spray painting a plastic bottle will not make it "precious."

I think she's doing some interesting things that you might have missed the point of.

I get that this is art and the porcelian / cleaning product = super femme thing.

...but if you like the look paint and some goo gone and you'll be cooking. and that would be recycling.

Anyone know where to get fake poppies that look like those? I adore poppies, but they're so fragile once picked.

So pretty. All in white the soap bottles have very pretty shapes for vases. I love all the different whites!

there is just something about these that i just love.

I saw a ton of those fake poppies at the Crate and Barrel outlet in NH. I didn't see anything on the website though. Maybe ebay?

@jick I didn't miss anything--I think it's junk or rather junque. You think it's interesting, I think its deriviative and bereft of purpose.
Items concocted by someone with an MFA aren't automatically art nor deserving of attention.

Porcelain isn't "by its nature, precious" as the wealth of porcelain collectibles affirms. Precious moments are precious?

Whether you want to call it art or craft or recycling, I think these are only marginally more interesting than the porcelain replicas of paper cups, plates, milk cartons that have flooded the market in the past couple of years (because the original detergent bottles had interesting forms). What originally was a clever idea is now just another trend. Yawn.

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nice installation, good pairing of otherwise everyday objects. :)

I love them.