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Art Alert: Sea/See/Saw

Written by on August 22nd 2015

What do you do with your old glasses when they have grown outdated and the lenses no longer workd for you?

Most people shove them away in the back of a drawer and forget about them or throw them away.

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A couple of Canadian artists Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett decided to put some of those old lenses to use…14,000 of them!

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They created a large scale instalation named Sea/See/Saw on the front of Istanbul’s Pera Museum overlooking the Bosphorous river.

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Thousands of lenses hang and glitter in the sun, reflecting the river water and moving with the breeze.

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What a beautiful way to turn trash into art!

We know, you probably won’t turn your glasses into art like this, but you can dig them out of those drawers and give them new life.  We collect old glasses and donate them to a great organization called New Eyes for the Needy.  They help provide glasses to those less fortunate and keep your old frames out of the landfill.

If you do decide to make art out of your old frames, send it over, we want to see it!

 

 

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Artist Alert!!! Everyone Should Know About Cyrus Kabiru

Written by on July 26th 2015

 “When you walk in town and you see someone with my glasses, the glasses will [get] all your attention”

Here at Eye Spy Optical we LOVE glasses (duh!) and we LOVE recycling (yeah!).  Cyrus Kabiru, a Kenyan artist, brings together the best of both worlds with his out-of-this-world creations.

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As a kid he wanted glasses, but wasn’t able to get them, so he started making his own.  He works with found materials, transforming them into wearable sculpture.  “I really love trash. I try to give trash a second chance. I change it to be something else, which is like it will stay for more than 100 years now.”

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While they probably won’t improve your vision, you have to admit that they could give you a new outlook on life.

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Watch a video and learn a little more about him at This Is Colossal and at his website.

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Bottle-cap Installation Success!

Written by on January 24th 2013

This week has been quite busy around Eye Spy! The highlight of our week so far has been this past Monday….believe it or not!? Who likes Mondays, especially when the high is around 5 degrees? Ack. Normally that would be our reaction too. However, this Monday  Mary Ellen Croteau and her hubby installed these bottle-cap beauties…making us fall in love with Monday, for one week only:-)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We won’t even try to lie, we all know the ladies of Eye Spy love us some color. Mary Ellen definitely brought it! Who knew that we needed more color in here? Mary Ellen created these pieces in stacks and then did some calculating to figure out the aesthetics of the columns. Her studio is full of caps, lids and tops…all sorted by color. People donate them to her or she even dumpster dives for some of them at her local recycling center. Reduce. Reuse. Recycle right?! We are looking forward to staring at these beauties for a long time! Oooh, aaah.

The columns look ever better in-person…and Mary Ellen just hung a grouping of 8 columns at the Carl Hammer Gallery!! You go girl! Check out Ms. Croteau’s website to see all of her fabulous artwork…including our favorite piece made from bottle caps: My Eye.  We have a print of it in our back office…so let us know if you want to take a peek at it:-)

 

This is our Design Maven’s favorite detail

Our Queen loves the metallic detail!


 

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