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Recycled PET Plastic Bottle Plant Sculptures by Veronika Richterová

April 6, 2015

Christopher Jobson

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Photo by Michal Cihlář

Czech artist Veronika Richterová creates new life from repurposed plastic PET bottles. For the last decade the artist has used various methods of cutting, heating, and assemblage to build colorfully translucent forms of everything from crocodiles to chandelier light fixtures to plants. Her obsession with plastic bottles doesn’t stop with creating artwork, Richterová has also collected over 3,000 PET plastic objects from 76 countries and writes extensively about the history and usage of plastic in her article A Tribute to PET Bottles.

 

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Photo by Michal Cihlář

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#plants #plastic #recycling #sculpture

 

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