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3 upcycled clocks

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Kiwiana trout-fishing souvenir (Lake Taupo): "Palm" corned beef tin with fork pendulum: Metal frying pan out of a shearing shed in Taranaki:

4 more upcycled clocks

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Electric fryingpan lid: Kiwiana paua-chip plate: Kiwiana copper bird plaque: Aluminium frying pan with Tui beer-can label:

8mm film earrings

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Below: earrings made from 8mm movie film. The production is the Hollywood Irving Berlin musical "Easter Parade" starring Judy Garland and Fred Astaire. Last century commercial movies were copied to 8mm film so that people could run the film through their own projector - and watch home movies! An early (1930's?) 8mm film projector

16mm film earrings

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These earrings are made from pieces of 16mm colour home-movie film. The images are of people on a skiing holiday: A 16 mm home-movie projector

Scrabble jewellery

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Earrings made from different "Scrabble" sets:

Tiki earrings

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Earrings made from plastic tiki from the tourist shop at the bottom of Queen Street, Auckland:

Keyboard jewellery

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Necklace and matching earrings from old computer keyboards: "High-Five!"

Smashing plates

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Pendant made from broken dinner plate, with found silver chain:

world of wearable trashion

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My two nieces came over before Lockdown with their Barbie dolls and had fun making trashion outfits for them from some of my collection of plastic rubbish: Coffee-cup skirt Skirt of rubber bands Gift-wrap skirt Plastic glass skirt Plastic bag dress Plastic lei dress Metal foil dress Pot scrubber dress Onion bag dress Aluminum foil dress Balloon skirt Plastic bag dress

talking rubbish

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The  "words" in this letter are made from pieces of white plastic strapping I found in the back-aaly behind New World Supermarket in Browns Bay:

drift-net catch

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Fish cut from jandals found on 90-Mile Beach:

living-room collection

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Some of my beach-finds on display in my front room in Browns Bay:

assemblage

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Assemblage of plastic beach finds collected on Orewa Beach:

beachcombing finds

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The plastic I collected on a walk on Browns Bay Beach during Covid-19 lockdown:

living-room art

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Installation of found objects in my front room:

under the magnifying glass

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Two discarded bread-wrapper tags found on the beach at Raglan:

it's a plastic world

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Plastic beach-trash in a light-globe. I found the plastic rope on beaches in Taranaki:

wall art

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Wall-piece of pieces of plastic fishing rope found on beaches on the North Shore, the Coromandel and 90-Mile Beach:

trashzilla

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I found this trashzilla in the carpark at the Bowling Club in Browns Bay:

pasifika

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Wig made from a plastic "grass" skirt found in the inorganic collection on the North Shore:

spoonfull

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Wall art made from discarded plastic forks and a spoon found in the car-park at New World in Browns Bay:

stick to your knitting

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Mandala from knitting needles:

soldier earrings

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Earrings made from plastic soldiers: