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Strung Sewing Button Sculpture

I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.

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December 9th, 2011 1

This piano is just one of a number of similar pieces from Miami artist Augusto Esquivel. He works by arranging lengths of dangling fishing line in a grid from an overhead support, and then carefully stringing them with variously-colored sewing buttons to create space-filling forms. It’s kind of like one of those mosaic beaded curtains, but in three dimensions. [Thanks, Matt!]

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