 | | 2025-01-06 20:32
From blog 14 Shades Of Grey
SIA Inspiration: Andrew Clemens
Welcome to the first SIA challenge of 2025! I wanted something unique to start the year with, so here’s my pick:
These sand bottles are the work of Iowan artist Andrew Clemens (1857 – 1894). He layered sands of different natural colors to create amazingly intricate patterns, pictures, names, and dates, in pharmaceutical bottles, without glue or any kind of binding material at all. They would sell for around $5 to $7 in his lifetime, but recently, a bottle was sold for nearly $1 million(!!!)
I think the graphic quality of these “paintings” can be really fun to interpret in an outfit, and their deep, rich colors are very...
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