Bottle Cap Pearls

In 2020 when my residency with NOW Friends in Nairobi Kenya was cancelled due to Covid, I spent 3 months cleaning, drilling and string thousands of bottle caps into larger-than-life strings of pearls inspired by Masi beading designs instead.

Double Dutch – Orange
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Bottle Cap Pearls
Head Full Of Joyful Noise
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Double Dutch Pony Bead Braids, August 2022, Cider Six Packs and various single use bottle caps strung and knotted with blue and white polyurethane rope 55 x 72 x 8 in
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Bottle Cap Pearls
Bottle Cap Pearls – close up
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Theda Sandiford Polyurethane Paradise: Rainforest Rhapsody Woven bottlecaps vines on blue and white polyurethane rope and paracord draped on rolling Z rack 79 x 12 x 72 in 2023