Artist Ptolemy has been creating his unique brand of “found art” for some time now, shaping discarded or lost hubcaps into various, mostly aquatic, animal forms.
His creations show an eerie blend of technology and the natural world, really capturing the shape and movements of complex fish, but frozen in metal. Ptolemy works exclusively in recycled material, claiming that all of his hubcaps are found, and usually on the side of the road. Because of this, the works of art are likely to bear “the scars of their previous lives,” which adds a sense of history to the pieces.
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