Preservation

Preservation is a sculpture of a lion bust composed of 24,682 pop tops. Each individual pop top was crocheted together and afixed to a fiberglass under-sculpture.

The lion is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List; their numbers decreasing by 30-50% in the late half of the 20th century. 

Beverage containers typically comprise 40-60% of roadside waste in the United States.

By recycling pop tops in a lion sculpture, the artist hopes to shine a light on both of these important initiatives - lion conservancy and recycling.