Coffee Sculpture

We’ve seen a lot of coffee art. But coffee stirrer art made into coffee sculptures? This is a first! Click through to the pictures.

Jonathan has developed a method of weaving together coffee stirrers (preferably the 7 inch round-tip ones from Starbucks) that use their own tensile strength to create large, organic sculptures with no adhesives or binders. The installation shown here was created in Sumter, South Carolina in 2007. It took 14 days to weave together the 60,000 stirrers that flow through a rotunda and wrap around a glowing chandelier.

 

Read more at: http://www.dearcoffeeiloveyou.com/making-art-with-60000-woven-coffee-stirrers/