Sustainability can get a bit of a bad rap, but Studio Swine are one of many outfits showing that connotations of hemp trousers and the like are daft and outdated. The duo – who scrubbed up very well indeed in our Winter edition of Printed Pages – has recently added yet another string to their sustainable-but-beautiful bow in the form of these sumptuous Gyrecraft pieces. The decidedly opulent looking works were created thanks to an arduous 1000 nautical mile journey across the seas, which saw a crew using a “Solar Extruder” to draw plastic from the waters. The device works by harnessing sunlight to melt and extrude plastic from the sea, and these little fragments were then used to create five gorgeous objets d’art, one representing each of the five major ocean gyres.
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