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Sculptured Costumes by Nikos Floros

New York-based Greek artist Nikos Floros spent years weaving together can strips to create these costumes from thousands of beer and soft drink cans.

Check her website: www.nikosfloros.com

Beer Cans Butterflies by Paul Villinski

Artist Paul Villinski created these swirl of butterflies made of recycled beer cans that once littered the streets of New York.

“These pieces explore themes of transformation and recovery through the metamorphosis of crushed beer cans from the streets of New York into flocks of realistically crafted butterflies.”

"I am drawn to humble, yet evocative materials; in this case, crushed beer cans from the streets of New York - every one of them once raised to someone’s lips. My process of “recycling” them into images of butterflies is a quiet physical meditation, a yoga of tin snips and files and fingers."

"As the butterflies alight on the walls of my studio, they lead into an exploration of formal, painterly issues. Often, they want to gather into a certain shape, or fly off on a particular tangent, and I let them."

"Finally, the butterflies operate symbolically, and I try to develop a conceptual unity between materials, process, and imagery: metamorphosing littered beer cans into flocks of butterflies mirrors the act of transformation and rebirth that butterflies symbolize across all cultures."

Check his website: http://www.paulvillinski.com/

Alumosaics by Jeff Ivanhoe

Jeff Ivanhoe created these colorful mosaics made out of tiles hand-cut from recycles soda and beer cans, called 'alumosaics'.

"'All I use is empty Coca-Cola and other brands of aluminium cans people throw away. Everybody gives me cans now all of the time so I need to keep working to get through them all."

"A 36-inch by 48-inch Alumosaic takes approximately two to three weeks to complete if I work solidly for between four and six hours a day."

"It started 33 years ago when I invented a stretch shoelace and decided to put an aluminium tip on it so it would look unique. I used aluminium cans and cut them to wrap around lace tips to make samples."

"Unfortunately I never made a penny on the lace idea, but my wife Barbara started fooling around with the coloured side of the pieces I had on my work bench."

"She made an eye out of the colours which got us thinking - so we decided to work on a piece together."

However the first attempt wasn't entirely successful.

"It was called "Yellowfeather" but it didn't last - I didn't know how to seal it so it got mouldy and I had to destroy it."

Check his website: http://jeffivanhoe.com/

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Recycled Can Sculptures by Makaon

Japanese artist Makaon creates these sculptures featuring characters from popular culture made of discarded aluminium cans.

Check his website: http://akikannkurafuto.web.fc2.com/

Canned Food Sculptures of Canstruction

Canstruction is an annual international charity competition where architects, engineers, contractors and students they mentor, compete to design and build giant structures made entirely from full cans of food. At the close of the competition all of the food is donated to local food banks where the competitions are held.

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Only 5 people in the team are allowed to build the structure with one additional person that assists with un-boxing cans. Team members may be swapped throughout the building process. The structure must be built within the time frame set by local organizers, but not to exceed one 12-16 hour day.

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Minimal supplies outside of cans and boxed food can be used. Cans must be full, unopened and with labels intact; a can with no label cannot be accepted at the food bank.