[Kevin Cheung] likes to upcycle old soda cans into — well — things. The metal is thin enough to cut by hand, but he’d started using a manual die-cutting machine, and it worked well. The problem? The ...

Though this looks like some kind of insane mushroom growth, it’s actually special, die-cut cardboard strips put together by the Ball-Nogues Studio for an installation at Rice University. The artists ...