Wim T. Schippers empties a bottle of Gazeuse lemonade in the sea at Petten, NL (1961)
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Cyprien Gaillard
‘The Recovery of Discovery (The Beer Pyramid)’ (2011) by Cyprien Gaillard.
(72.000 bottles of Efes beer)
Michel de Broin
‘Reparations’ (2004) by Michel de Broin. See the video here.
Empty plastic bottles found by chance on the streets of Paris are transformed into rockets. A bicycle pump is used to compress a mixture of water and air inside the bottle until the pressure is built up high enough to fire it into the sky.
The bottle tree
Being originally a Hoodoo custom (Hoodoo = a form of predominantly African-American traditional folk magic, mostly found in the Southern United States), bottle trees were made as a means of protecting the home by trapping evil spirits within the colorful bottles. Though scarce today, bottle trees are still created for their artistic appeal.
