Ever wonder what life as a coffee stir stick would be like? There’s that anticipation that your destination would be heaven inside the bottom of a coffee cup, then not-so-heaven when tossed in the garbage. Well, what happens if you never get to that coffee cup? What happens if you never fulfill your wooden-stir-stick destiny? Well, I’m certain that’s exactly what was going through the minds of some 60,000 wooden stirrers (if they had minds that is…) as they were purchased from some local grocery store in Sumter, South Carolina.
You see, local artist Jonathan Brilliant developed a method of weaving together wooden coffee stir sticks (much like the 7 inch round-tip ones you can get at Starbucks) to create free flowing sculptures that feature no adhesive binding of any kind, and rely solely on the tensile strength of the stir sticks themselves. This piece, created in 2007 in Sumter, South Carolina (incidentally the location of the start of the Civil War…just a random observation…) took roughly 60,000 stir sticks and 14 days to create, and held together for an amazing 6 months (remember…no glue!!) before starting to fall to pieces. Of course, not all the stir sticks were wasted, the pieces were donated to local schools… presumably for arts & crafts projects and not for kids to use in their coffees (kids shouldn’t drink coffee…stunts growth apparently).
Apparently this guy also did one last year at fresno state...see below:
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