Artist Mia Liu Recycles 1000s of Guggenheim Museum Admission Tickets into Astonishing Works of Art

With visitors from around the world flocking to the <a title="Guggenheim" href="http://www.guggenheim.org/" target="_blank">Guggenheim Museum</a> in New York City each day, you can imagine how many admission tickets need to be printed. Taiwanese Artist <a title="Mia Liu" href="http://www.itpark.com.tw/artist/statement/647/291/en" target="_blank">Mia Liu</a> thought these tickets could live on as something more than just used pieces of paper, and has transformed thousands of them into dramatic three-dimensional sculptures that seem to suck the viewer into a vortex. The recycled art turns an object that was once the means of entry into an art gallery into something that hangs inside one.

In her work, Mia Liu enjoys exploring the hidden world of every day objects.

By examining objects through a different angle, like these thousands of admission tickets to the Guggenheim, Liu reconstructs the simple and ordinary into the elaborate.

Each ticket becomes the basis for large, three-dimensional sculptures.

While she enjoys drawing freely, her fascination with textures led her to use paper as her primary medium for these amazing pieces.

Taking recycling to the level of high culture, Liu reinterprets the objects used to gain access to the world of art into the artwork itself.

Each ticket in the piece is autographed by the artist.

Mia Liu's work incorporates Guggenheim admission tickets inscribed with her signature.

Mia Liu alters each ticket to create texture from two-dimensional pieces of paper.

Using discarded admission tickets from the Guggenheim, Mia Liu uses discarded items to create works of art with a new sense of value and energy.