Aluminum Alchemy | Sawdust & Soda Cans Story (Chapter 3)
Aluminum Alchemy
by the makers behind Sawdust & Soda Cans
Factories want perfect materials.
Makers see potential in the imperfect.
Chapter 3 of 9
Turning a soda can into jewelry is not something factories bother doing.
Factories prefer predictable materials.
Identical sheets.
Identical shapes.
Identical outcomes.
Soda cans are not predictable.
They come dented.
Scratched.
Covered in loud graphics and colors that were never intended to become wearable art.
Which made them perfect.
With metal shears, punches, pliers, paint, resin, and a little bit of stubborn creativity, those discarded cans became earrings, pendants, and art.
Dr Pepper cans became an annual tradition of one-of-a-kind pieces.
Cookie tins and aluminum scraps joined the experiment.
Old jewelry found new life.
Magazines and crossword books donated patterns and texture.
Nothing was safe from becoming material.
Some materials deserve another life.
Eventually the growing collection of aluminum creations needed a place to go.
If performing at festivals wasn’t possible anymore…
Selling at them was.
And that is where the next chapter of the story quietly began.
Because standing beside the aluminum creations was someone working with an entirely different material.
Wood.
Over the next several weeks we’ll be sharing the full origin story of Sawdust & Soda Cans here on the blog.
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