Daily Essentials, a blue jewelry box filled with jewelry made out of medical waste like pills and pill bottles

Daily Essentials with Ben Cline

Daily Essentials, 2024, 5 x 14.5 x 11” Poplar wood, acrylic, jewelry findings, non-biological medical waste Ben Cline and Ray Bernoff Some people won’t go out without their jewelry. Others can’t leave the house without their medication. Chronic illness is not known for its aesthetic appeal, but with this piece, we ask “What if all…

A close-up of a relief painting of a gory wound full of pills and glitter

The Wound Will Not Heal (November 2022)

This gory pill art project, The Wound Will Not Heal, started with this mask I made at a Halloween Open Hacks at Technocopia. Jessica Sadlier suggested doing white tissue papier-mache over a painted underlayer for a creepy, realistic skin look. That mask got me thinking about other ways to use this skin effect, and that…

Another close-up of the bead curtain, showing the sun shining through the transparent orange plastic.

Prescription Portière

I finished this bead curtain from prescription bottles in September 2022. A “portière” is a curtain that goes over a door. I’ve never seen prescription bottle art like this anywhere else. If you know of any, please send it to me! I would love to see it. Here’s what I had to say about this…