DIY Inspiration: Counting Sheep Medicine Bottle with Sheep
Make your own with plastic sheep that you could spray paint any color you wished, add a medicine bottle and label, and add fake grass for an inspired version of Laura Potter’s genius art project Cliché.
Made in 1997 by artist Laura Potter, the counting sheep are called Cliché. Cliché was acquired by the UK Crafts Council in 1998. The materials are silver sheep (ready made), glass bottles, and model makers grass.
From the UK Crafts Council:
Cliché is a bottle of tiny silver sheep to be taken out and counted at bedtime.
Laura Potter employs a wide range of precious and non-precious materials in her work. As a jeweller she seeks to challenge perceptions of jewellery as a purely decorative art and is concerned with the personal relationships that develop between people and their possessions. Her early works, including Cliché, incorporated ideas of health and well being, gradually developing into an exploration of the emotional and psychological support provided by jewelery.
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