Give Gulnur Ozdaglar a used plastic (PET) bottle, a soldering gun and an alcohol burner and step aside. Cutting each piece one at a time, the imaginative architect hand pierces patterns onto bowl, pin and pendant shapes, heating and melting the plastic just enough to mold it. The functional bowls and lightweight jewelry have an undeniable organic quality to them. Organic plastic. Isn’t that an oxymoron?
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Even the close-up photographs of the details, shown here and here are smoky, sexy, mysterious.
tertium non data translated from latin means: the third is not given. it is an alchemic term which refers to the process of combining two disparate elements to create a new, third element. the process of transformation is a mystery – an unknown… Things made by GULNUR OZDAGLAR GUVENC
Writing this blog gives me the opportunity to fall in love every day. What a feeling! And Ozdaglar’s work gives me the opportunity to remind you that art is what you make it. If you love organic, curvy, patterns, or repetitive forms, you will find quite a bit of inspiration on her website. Grab a cuppa and stay awhile.
Gulnur’s Etsy shop
Her architecture website
via Design Sponge
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Isn’t this stuff amazing. I have been looking at his stuff for a while trying to figure it out.
Hey Toby – was this a link you sent me that I have filed in my folder with my other links from you? Did I forget? Off to go look at my folder…
Its truly exciting when the mundane is elevated to lovely as with these pieces!
Thanks for pointing the way to so many fantastic artists!
Susan, this is wonderful! I haven’t yet seen her site, just what you’ve shown here. My instinctual reaction was that many of these pieces look like jelly fish…and, I mean that in the best way! If you grow up swimming ocean waters as I did, it becomes second nature to be on the look out for that shape/texture…the stings can really hurt! Anyway..I’m off to look at her site. Thanks much…love, love it..
Gulnur Ozdaglar’s work has inspired my ideas so much after only looking at his work briefly I knew I wanted to experiment my idea’s in a similar style, for my own work in college. It really is beautiful!!!