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It is normally used to wrap up large cardboard boxes
or fix household objects.
But as these incredible images show, talented artists have managed to
find other uses for Scotch packing tape by creating these sensational
sculptures.
An annual contest organised by the U.S. firm has seen amazing entries
including a life-size mermaid and full-scale car.
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The company set customers the challenge of creating imaginative art
pieces just using rolls of the sticky tape.
It led to dozens of entries and 30,000 votes being cast to find a
winner.
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Eventually Jake Longenecker, from Manheim, Pennsylvania, scooped the
$5,000 cash prize with his Free Fallin' piece.
It is a skydiver made from 15.5 rolls of tape and inspired by Second
World War era paratrooper.
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Mr Longenecker said: 'My objective was to capture the action and
intensity of such a simple and graceful act, such as falling through the
sky.
'I accomplished this by uniformly wrapping parts of my own body with
tape, which were later assembled into the skydiver.' |
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Abigail Colety from Austin, Texas, won $1,000 as runner-up for Game
Night, a depiction of two people playing draughts made using nine rolls
of tape.
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Other entries included a bicycle, Spider-Man, Michelangelo's Creation of
Adam, a ballerina on a tightrope as well as several dogs.
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