Artist Jesse Cohn says:

I like reusing materials – making something valuable about something discarded. I also like making things out of familiar items. It’s important to me that the art is accessible to the viewer. I like that someone who doesn’t know anything about art can look at what I’ve made and understand how I’ve made it and, for the mos

t part, what I’ve tried to accomplish through the piece.

About 400 bottles came from the Beyond the Bottle tower. The others were primarily collected from recycling bins on campus and around College Hill. I would literally wake up at 7am on trash day and walk around the east side with a garbage bag taking bottles from the curb. The rest I got over winter break at home from my family and friends’ recycling. I have kept about 300 of the bottles, but I emptied the rest of them and recycled them.

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