Nov 18, 2009: Vase
 

What a beautiful vase, all gold and shiny looking. Precious metals?

http://cellar.org/2009/vase.jpg

Ewww, yucky. :dead:

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To think, I never knew how beautiful camel bladder really is before now.

I always thought they were pink and wrinkly and stinky and full of piss.

Hey, bladders are great things for holding ... um, liquids.

Would this be classified as Mixed Media Art?

The colors on the bladder vase are so organ-ized.

I'll have to remember that the next time I'm digging around a pile of animal guts. "Oh...look at this stomach. That would make a kick-ass tapestry!"

it says moulded from (or, in 'merkin, "molded); it doesn't say the vase is made from camel bladder. Just like papier mache-ing a balloon in kindergarten.

Don't think so, that's not the natural shape of a bladder, plus the site it's on.

Boy, I bet that camel was pissed.

Oh wait. That was a bladder. Maybe not.

I guess my back would be humped also if i had a bladder like that.

you might be right, but why use the word molded in that case? the site says it's a collection of rawhide and leather; perhaps leather molded around the blown up bladder?

If you blow up a bladder, I doubt it would take that shape. Probably look more like the balloon that was paper mached... mache-ed... mashed... covered. ;)

Vintage? As opposed to all the nouveau camel bladder knockoffs they try to sell you at the mall?