Chemical Balance

Finally! I found something to do with the pill bottles I've been collecting!

I didn't create these, I found the post on Recyclart.org. But I am nuts for little containers and such, so I have a small (honest!) drawer of empty pill bottles because they are perfect to hold little somethings. I have a bunch with beads and buttons in some, though I prefer clear containers for such things. And I made myself stop saving these bottles when the small (honest!) drawer became full.

There are more photos at the website I linked to above. Here's what was said about the work.

To create this work, thousands of empty prescription pill bottles were collected from nursing homes, pharmacies and individuals’ medicine cabinets. Like stalactites and stalagmites, the constructions hang down from above and grow upwards from the floor below. Chemical Balance speaks to our culture’s over-consumption of prescription drugs and our bodies’ dependency on these medications. The piece acts like a group portrait, mapping our society’s chemical intake. The illuminated structures radiate with an intense orange glow, suggesting that issues of health reach far beyond the physical."