The Various Arts of Katie Cowden

Butterfly bottle box- vintage medicine bottle, feather wings, wooden hand, antique bottles.

All the hearts that were on my desk. This is exciting because a few hours ago, there was a giant pile of junk on my desk but I cleaned it! and found all these hearts. Now I’m gonna hot glue some stuff to other stuff.

I’m doing a fortnight of heart photos, one every day until Valentine’s Day.

I made this a few years ago with a wooden heart shape I painted black and then covered in mother of pearl buttons. I actually got the buttons (a big bag of them) as payment for some product photography for a bead store.

Detail of button encrusted hearse, the Button King Museum, Bishopville, SC.

Button covered piano, Button King Museum in Bishopville, South Carolina.

Outhouse covered in buttons, Button King Museum in Bishopville, SC.