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I created this mosaic in response to a canoe trip on a local waterway. I used a "palette" of discarded Starbucks gift cards. Each element was developed using the color, texture and patterns found within the designs on the cards.

Mary Ellen Bowers lives and works in the Pacific Northwest. Up-cycled plastic gift-cards become singular mosaics! Look Closer..... I reveal the hidden beauty in items I rescue from their one-way trip to the landfill. I use recycled material to create vibrant mosaics which engage the viewer on multiple levels. I delight in re-purposing a pile of discarded credit cards, gas cards, and gift cards to create images that draw the viewer in to discover the details - and then realize in surprise, the materials used. Gift cards are ubiquitous in our society and to cut them apart based upon pattern, color, and texture to create completely new imagery has meaning at multiple levels for me. Recreating images of the natural world...