17 Aug Bottle Cap Mosaic Fish No. 54, 2007
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in bottle cap mosaic
Bottle Cap Mosaic Fish No. 54, 2007
plywood, primer, bottle caps, recycled bronze sheet, copper nails
26″ x 55.5″ x 1.5″
This bottle cap mosaic fish was a commission to recreate as closely as possible Bottle Cap Mosaic Fish No. 4 and No. 42. A combination of caps, Sierra Nevada, Stewarts Ginger Beer, Dos Equis and Becks went into this attempt to capture the gradient of a trout in bottle caps. The fins and tale are cut from bronze sheet recycled from a door kickplate The eye is made of two stacked jar lids. All the caps are partially crimped but not flattened and then nailed to double-primed plywood with copper and nickle plated nails.
The additional photos below give a sense of how light interacts with this piece.
