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Teapots and Teacups

  My work does not seek value in its materials, recycled tin cans, but asks us to re-evaluate how an object is valued in our material culture. ... (read more)  
         
  California Dream Teapot Sculpture by Harriete Estel Berman.   Boston Chinese Teapot Sculpture by Harriete Estel Berman made from recycled tin cans.   Obverse Obsession Chocolate Pot by Harriete Estel Berman made from recycled tin cans.  
             
  Bittersweet Chocolate Pot by Harriete Estel Berman is constructed recycled tin cans.   Cubist Coffee Service by Harriete Estel Berman is a bas-relief construction made from recycled tin cans.   Coffee: The Golden Ratio coffee pot sculpture by Harriete Estel Berman is constructed with recycled tin cans.  
             
  Consuming Good Taste teapot and stand by Harriete Estel Berman is constructed with recycled tin cans.   Consuming Conversation 10 teacups by Harriete Estel Berman is constructed using recycled tin cans.   Caffeinated Arrangement: Black or White coffee pot and espresso cups sculpture by Harriete Estel Berman.  
           
         
 

Consuming Conversation

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  A series of 200 teacups as a commentary about our consumer society.   Purchase Note Cards  
        
  Teacups stack with a caffeine theme using tins from Twinings tea, maxwell house, illy coffee, Mr. Coffee and Coke tins.   teacups use tins from Penquin Caffeinated Mints, Accent, Hershey's chocolate, Slim Fast and a yellow vintage lunch box.   Lifesaver tin and colorful images cover teacups in a precarious stack about our consumer society.  
             
  Teacups stack made from recycled materials includes Girl Scout tin, stars, kitchen scene, Wheat Thins, and Famous Danish cookies tin can.   Three teacups using Kitchen Magic tin, Trivial Pursuit game Board tin, and a Maxfield Parrish inspired cracker tins illustration all using recycled materials.   Teacup stack include a Bathroom Magic tin, red and white gingham check, van Gogh painting printed on tin, Campfire Marshmellow tin, and graphic of town on recycled tin cans.  
             
  Teacups with ingredients written on the outside, Penguin Caffeinated Mints, Renoir painting on tin, Yellow Hornet Wasp Killer, and a vintage candy tin from the 1950's.   Stack of teacups using recycled tin cans including Hershey chocolate bars, Chinese tea tin, Slim Fast diet shake, embroidery printed on tin, and a vintage images from Women's Home Companion magazine.   Teacup stack with Reese's Peanut Butter cups tin, The Artist garden at Givereny printed on tin, star motif, yellow coffee cups and Disney World cups with stars.  
             
  Teacups from recycled tin cans includes See's Candy tin, Chinese cookie tin, and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers all in a towering stack of teacups.   Three teacups that include butter cookie recycled tin can the writing in the tea is most important   Stack of five cups precariously balanced as a metaphor for our teatering economy.  
             
  Stack of teacups with amazing graphic on the saucer, pink vintage pattern, blue and white, all made from recycled tin cans.   Two teacups in red and and white are meant to read with symbolic messages about our consumer society.   Amazing graphic inspired by Audrey Beardsley drawing of lady on couch, yellow w/ black and white, Hershey's, Walker's Shortbread with a famous painting of Mary Queen of Scots.  
             
  stack of teacups with charlie Brown characters, balloons, cupids and reproduction of Van Gogh paint on tin.   Cups with commentary about our consumer society using Uncle Ben's rice tin.   One of the tallest stacks of teacups include coca-cola tins, candy, sugar, flour, popcorn, and shortbread cookies.  
             
  a symbol of our unstable economy this stack of teacups includes Milky Way, Game tin, Pepsi Cola, Chex mix, Quaker Oats and Chex Mix.   Two stacks of individual teacups are a metaphor for our unstable consumer economy with teacups using tins from Stainless Steel Magic, Danish Butter Cookies, Mr. Peanut, Renoir painting on tin and Fiberglass Magin tin can.   Consuming Conversation stack of teacups using Whitman's Chocolate, Nestle's, Hershey's and Cadbury Chocolate products.  
             
  Teacup stack using recycled materials include a Grape-Nuts tin, Illy coffee tin, Campbell's Ssoup vintage advertising tin, and a vintage tin with red map details.   Two Teacups from the series Consuming Conversation.   Teacups precariously balanced symbolize our current economic crisis. They use recycled tin cans for Oreos, chocolate products to make these cups.  
             
  Stack of teacups includes 3 cups using consumer packaging for Ritz Crackers, cookies, and a famous Renoir Painting printed on tin.   This stack of cups includes a famous painting printed on tin, nutrition labels, cute Chocolate Cocoa graphic, Wedgewood images printed on tin, and a vintage candy tin.   This precarious tower of teacups includes an entertaining tea graphic, I Love Lucy tin lunch box image, butter cookies and chocolate chip cookies printed on tin.  
             
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  multiple stacks of teacups from Consuming Conversation by Harriete Estel Berman   Consuming Conversation teacups BEGHK  
         
Teacup Conversation D by Harriete Estel Berman from recycled tin cans.   Teacup Conversation I by Harriete Estel Berman from recycled tin cans.   Teacup Conversation E by Harriete Estel Berman from recycled tin cans.   Teacup Conversation G by Harriete Estel Berman from recycled tin cans.
             
Teacup Conversation J by Harriete Estel Berman from recycled tin cans.   Teacup Conversation F by Harriete Estel Berman from recycled tin cans.   Teacup Conversation K by Harriete Estel Berman from recycled tin cans.   Teacup Conversation H by Harriete Estel Berman from recycled tin cans.
             
Teacup Conversation A by Harriete Estel Berman from recycled tin cans.   Teacup Conversation C by Harriete Estel Berman from recycled tin cans.       Teacup Conversation B by Harriete Estel Berman from recycled tin cans.
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