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More people than ever are trying to rescue, recycle and reinvent, especially on Earth Day.
This extreme example uses all those unlucky lottery scratch-off tickets to turn them into a recycled masterpiece.
Artists Adam Eckstrom and Lauren Was have created an entire dining room out of 40,000 used lottery tickets, using them to make up the wall panels, furniture and even the place settings.
All the furniture and décor total a whopping $70,000 in lottery ticket sales.
The installation, which was created to celebrate the launch of Galerie magazine, is called "Dream Home." It's located at "The Art of Interiors" exhibit in a townhouse on the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan and is open to the public through May 10.
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What I have spent in 2 years doesn't seem like much now lol
Artists and their imagination keep on surprising us. Well done!
My first thought is how many are "missed" winners that were never cashed. Hopefully, none are, but even high budget players who scratch instants on Youtube miss winners.
Anyways, imagine a room covered in Texas and Colorado $50 tickets. That would cost a fortune!
"Interesting."
This is AMAZING!!
Such creativity !!
I wonder how long it took them to do this?
And.. why?
It looks beautiful. Dream House? Nah... more like Losers Emporium. Most individual Americans do not have a net income of $70,000.00. $70,000.00 of losing {worthless} tickets and furniture in one room..
Another recycled lottery ticket dream car. Interesting huh?
Who has this much time on their hands?
"Oh no he didn't"!!!
This is more interesting than scratching the tickets honestly...
And here's where that came from [video]: https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/264042
I like the earlier 3D sculptural ones much more. The recent ones are pretty though.
Very unique and creative, I like the Angel.
Stunning ??
Awesome Video Todd! Thank you. That tells the whole story of these two artist.
So - you get a commission to do one of these rooms... your patron gives you 70k$ for tickets... when you scratch them and find a 10M$ winner... do you tell the patron or just keep it for yourself and buy another ticket?
Great question. As long as you can document you spent the full amount of the money on tickets, it does not bar you from buying your own as well. You also would not be reasonably expected to use a winning ticket in your project and not cash it in.
They could have done it without spending any money on lottery tickets. Ask other people to give you their loser tickets or search for them in the garbage cans outside convenience stores.
I wonder if they scanned all these "loser" tickets before they glued them to the wall? Just to make sure.
Watch the video. They didn't buy all those tickets. Don't think they bought any tickets. And people didn't give unscratched tickets. They find scratched tickets in trash cans, on the ground.
Actually put them to a good use instead of just them just being thrown away.
How creative, fantastic work..hmm, I am refinishing a piece of furniture. This could put a new spin on this.
Seriously, their work is beautiful.