Clutterflies

Craft & Design Science
Clutterflies
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Photos by Tom Little.

Michelle Stitzlein makes these beautiful giant butterfly sculptures entirely from junk, “including piano keys, broken china, license plates, rusty tin cans, electrical wire, bottlecaps, and other miscellaneous items.” [via Dude Craft]

From the pages of MAKE:

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Bruce Stewart covered Michelle Stitzlein’s butterfly sculptures in MAKE 19.

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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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