Wine Bottle Lights
Re-lights from artist Jerry Kott are stunning handmade lights and lamps created from recycled wine bottles. “I started experimenting with empty wine bottles simply because I had them and I like wine,” explains Kott.
Collecting the bottles is quite easy as fellow wine drinkers and art patrons save their bottles for Kott. “ I have been known to empty a few myself if a specific color is needed,” he explains from his farm in Pennsylvania. “I have a large array of bottles to choose from but do have limitations in combining the bottles for the lights because the diameters have to match.”
The Re-lights are created by hand-cutting bottles, polishing the edges, permanently creating the glass frosting and affixing the glass pieces together – all labor is done by hand. “The time involved varies by the amount of sections-color blocks combined to create each work,” Kott explains. “Obviously, the multi-stripe works are tedious in the amount of cutting and polishing but I believe that they are worth the effort.”
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