This year, I'm committed to it--I am the advisor to the high school art club and will use their energy to make it happen!
In the meantime, this happened.
I was there when it first occurred. The PE teacher took his empty bottle and that of the IT guy, walked up to the wall, and screwed them in. I thought it was hilarious. I thought it was even funnier how it shocked people.
How have we never thought of this before?
Well, we have. When I first started the project, the head principal suggested I make a reverse mural wherein I cut off the screw threads from the top of bottles, attach them to a board, then have an reuseable bottlecap mosaic base. We could move the colors around, screwing and unscrewing bottlecaps to make different pictures. I've never figured out how to do it, but I think a small board would be a great extra time art center in my classroom.
The bottle installation has grown to five bottles. I would be more inclined to leave the bottles up except you can see the remaining liquid in this unclean trash. The bottlecaps were all washed before being used to remove dirt, sugar,and other germs. I'm afraid fresh liquid will turn the inside of those caps nasty.
For now, the bottles have brought a smile to many and freshness to the collaborative art.
How marvelous! Funny at first, but actually a wonderful expression of 'living' art, where the viewer participates in the growth of the work... or if you can think of a way to embed the screw tops, leave them as a wall, start a central motif with screwed on caps, and invite passers-by to add to the design. I wonder what you would come up with?
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