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Ornate sculptural forms celebrating
the sea & land created with recycled plastics
The Three Graces
Ornate mirror frame — recycled PETG, hand-finished
12" W × 20" H × 5" D | Mirror: 7.5" × 9.5"
Ornate mirror frame — recycled PETG, hand-finished
12" W × 20" H × 5" D | Mirror: 7.5" × 9.5"
The Three Graces rise from woven corals, sea shells, and sea urchins — figures from mythology surfacing the relics of a living reef. Designed in the tradition of the Italian Baroque: ornate, excessive, unapologetically beautiful. Built from recycled plastics, a material our culture treats as worthless, finished to appear like porcelain.
This plastic was supposed to be discarded. Instead it becomes art.
PETG is technically recyclable. In practice, most of it doesn't get recycled — it accumulates, persists, gets shipped abroad and called someone else's problem. This frame is a refusal of that story.
Kintsugi teaches that the break can be made beautiful. Arte Povera insisted that overlooked materials deserve the highest artistic attention. This piece lives in both traditions — beauty in the margins, in the cracks, in what we've written off.
Printed in recycled PETG, sculpted with hot tools, hand-finished and signed in my Western Massachusetts studio. No two are alike.
Arrives home to you ready to hang, packaged securely and shipped.
Contact for custom sizing or commissions.
Reclaiming
Plastic are made of oil. Oil is ancient life — plankton and algae compressed inside the earth for three hundred million years, drawn out as oil, shaped into objects we use for eleven minutes and discard without ceremony.
Learning to work with it meant learning to see it differently. How recycled PETG holds light — translucent, layered, alive from within. How ground minerals worked in by hand can make plastic forget what it was. How ornamental form gives the material a new argument about its own worth.
The artists who came before taught this: the material was never the point. The sustained attention was. This studio works plastic until it holds the weight of old ceramic, the luminosity of stone.
This is not recycling. It is a reckoning with what this material actually is — ancient, irreplaceable, dynamic when you give it the attention it always deserved.
