Gülnur Özdağlar is an architect who shifted her focus to graphic design and digital art after a decade of architectural practice. But after many years of creating on a computer, she began to seek experience “making” with her hands. Her experiments in transforming plastics led her to develop her own technique based on upcycling bottles: collecting, cutting, heating, drilling and finally melting them into unique shapes. This process results in very delicate, beautiful jewelry that wearers find hard to believe was made from the trash we discard every day. Özdağlar believes that in the future there will be a plastic that will return to the cradle with no loss, and that this will determine the way shapes are created. Then, the problem will not be recycling, or even upcycling, but “karmic compensation.” In other words, she believes that there will be a better world.
