Beer Can Prayer Wheels

Don't throw out your old beer cans. Use them to generate prayers:

image source: Box Vox



While living in Los Angeles, German artist Lucie Stahl made trips to the desert to collect cans that had been rusted, tarnished, and bleached by the elements. Suspending the cans with a central rod and affixing them to the wall, Stahl displays her series of cans in a way that allows them to rotate, referencing the Tibetan prayer wheels that are inscribed in Sanskrit with Buddhist mantras to accumulate good karma and purify bad karma. By elevating found garbage to objects of mysticism and reverence, the artist challenges flippant and passive attitudes towards consumerism and pollution.
— Artspace.com

Several years ago I posted about another creative way to recycle beer cans: Home heating with beer cans.
     Posted By: Alex - Thu Aug 11, 2016
     Category: Art





Comments
"By elevating found garbage to objects of mysticism and reverence, the artist challenges flippant and passive attitudes towards consumerism and pollution."
Do artsy people really talk this way?
Posted by RobK on 08/11/16 at 10:12 AM
Only when they want you to think that they're smarter than they actually are, RobK.

And another Eddie Murphy role comes to mind again - this time from "The Golden Child", where he "scratches the prayer wheel" when talking to a Buddhist monk.
Posted by KDP on 08/11/16 at 02:02 PM
It's sort of karmic, I suppose. Those beer cans had probably already been the cause of talking to God on the great white telephone.
Posted by TheCannyScot on 08/11/16 at 07:17 PM
I once heard of a good ol' boy who put beer cans to good use. After an accident messed up his pickup's bumper, he fashioned a replacement energy-absorbing bumper from two 1" x 6" boards and a bunch of empty beer cans.
Posted by Joshua Zev Levin, Ph.D. on 08/11/16 at 08:20 PM
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