Vicodin Earrings
When I had knee surgery I was prescribed Vicodin, but soon found out that it makes me very ill, so I couldn’t take it. I’m trying to use it in my art, and my first try is these tablet earrings. I’m going to either coat them in shellac or resin so that they don’t crumble; they’re very chalky and fragile. I wore nitrile gloves and a dust mask while drilling through and constructing them.
13 comments en “Vicodin Earrings”
February 20th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Where are you going to wear them. In most places you will get mugged in 20 min.
February 21st, 2009 at 12:15 am
Just make sure the never get dropped or lost. Kids love to eat things and parents love to sue.
February 21st, 2009 at 12:43 am
would it be legal to sell the earring form?
February 21st, 2009 at 9:24 am
Concerns be damned; you’d literally be a knockout in them! …literally.
February 22nd, 2009 at 2:43 pm
I suppose you wear them yourself if the med was prescribed for you. However, several laws are broken if you give them away, sell them, or get them from someone else and wear them.
In any event what’s the point? It’s a pill with a hole in it.
February 25th, 2009 at 7:23 am
This is a handy way to carry around an emergency supply of powerful painkillers.
March 8th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
You should call ‘em “earaches”. For a while I was on a kick making earrings out of cereal and candy. I used a 2 part resin that I got at the hardware store to coat them. That seemed to work best. Coating with shellac and other water-based things tended to dissolve them. very cool.
March 21st, 2009 at 9:38 pm
These are hysterical – I love ‘em! I can’t think of a better use for killer pain killers!! and I love a mind that won’t let anything go to waste
April 8th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
[...] go with my Vicodin earrings, here’s a ring with a bezel-set pill instead of a stone. Sterling Silver. Vicodin Ring | [...]
April 9th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
anybody who asks “what’s the point?” in response to art needs a primer in what art is.
i’m curious as to how you got the holes in the pills without them breaking? very interesting, very simple, hard to miss
July 19th, 2009 at 3:17 am
Cool! Must be a sure way to pick up Gregory House, I guess. (:
October 12th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Love ‘em! just the kinda weird and wonderful style of earrings I’m looking for. How easy was the drilling? Love all the comments concerning themselves with the legalities – people, its fashion – anything goes!!!
October 24th, 2009 at 5:10 am
Is ‘Papagun’ really serious when he says, “In any event what’s the point? It’s a pill with a hole in it.” ?
Wow, I cannot believe in this day and age that someone can be so ignorant of what art is. ‘Amandaw’ is right, Papagun, you really do need a primer in art is. (Do you also need us to define what a “primer” is for you?)
Becky Stern, this is a very ingenious, creative and excellent piece of art. Keep up the good work! As a fellow artist, I’d like to see more artwork in this style, and highlighting our generation’s addictions.
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