One of my favourite artist Tara Donovan, uses everyday, mundane materials to create the most amazing, meticulous sculptures that imitate natural formations.
For example in the piece below 'Bluffs' she has glued together thousands of regular white plastic buttons to create a structure that resembles a coral reef.
Bluffs, 2005, buttons & glue, Ace Gallery Los Angeles
Detail of Bluffs, 2005, buttons & glue, Ace Gallery Los Angeles
I admire artists like her so much. To take a basic, mundane material that everyone is familiar with, like a plastic button, and turn it into something amazing I think shows real creativity and talent. Not many people would look at a plastic button and think that you potentially use it in this way to create this astonishing sculpture.
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