Manga artist plucked out pebbles stuck in his shoes for a year, turned them into art

[Carla_Sinclair]

Originally published at: Manga artist plucked out pebbles stuck in his shoes for a year, turned them into art | Boing Boing

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[anothernewbbaccount]

If he sticks at it a bit longer - say another four decades - he can build a palace

[Melizmatic]

Reboing.

[ludd]

Hmm…how much of art is about excessive compulsion?

[timd]

In a reverse I had art stuck in my shoes. Before the public were kept away from Ai Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds (because the dust was dangerous to inhale), I came home with several sunflower seeds made from porcelain stuck in my boots. I kept them.

[bashful]

This looks like a hobby for my retirement. And here I’ve been just throwing them back outside all this time.

[Loudmouth]

I’m doing something similar by saving the rubber bands I get from free newspapers delivered to my driveway in order to build a toilet seat colander I read about in another post. I am planning to use it to conserve water from straining spaghetti and other noodles.