Re: beach glass
Posted by Daniel H on December 13, 2017, 11:16 am, in reply to "Re: beach glass" Edited by board administrator December 13, 2017, 12:13 pm
There is a hierarchy of what happens to the glass you remove from the beach. 1) Making something that shows off the full features of the glass and is appreciated by others e.g. on display. Like the Christmas tree or jewelry. 2) Making something that hides most of the features of the glass e.g. putting the glass into cement to make a table. (I have seen this tried several times, never with very good results. It is equivalent to taking anything wonderful and hiding 70% of it.) 3) Putting the glass into a box and storing it in your closet. 4) Taking one piece as a souvenir / reminder vs taking a hundred pieces. 5) Using real beach glass where making your own would do just as well. Currently I am doing #3...SAD. I may give it to someone who was going to do a great #1 but will probably do as you were thinking just putting it back. I so enjoy looking for and finding beach glass, picking it up, touching the once sharp now naturally worn semi smooth by the sand surface. Finding one that is Done (no clear surface on any part of the glass) isn't easy, I throw those that are not done back for more sanding. Have you ever thought about the origin of the glass, how it got there to begin with? Say some people are drinking on the beach, they get drunk and careless and break a bottle and don't clean it up. Others are silently cursing them for being so obnoxious, yet years later that same glass brings such joy to many others. From really sad to really glad. Judge not eh? I also have 950 cobalt blue Tequila bottles which I have been waiting for the right idea to use them on. So far the winner is breaking them, putting them into a tumbler to get them started (and take off the real sharp edges) and then sowing the beach with them from a Kayak about 200 yards out. They would end up on the beach over the future years and would change the status of blue glass from extremely rare to more common. I may also make a website or something printed to show the people at the beach bar drinking the Tequila which produced the bottles used. It might turn out to be one of those things that people talk about in the years to come i.e. the way it used to be. |
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