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Take a hit...of art: These Montreal sculptors are taking bongs to dizzying new highs

The sculptors at the High Art studio in Montreal make masterful one-of-a-kind custom bongs.

The sculptors at the High Art studio in Montreal make masterful one-of-a-kind custom bongs

Lise Hosein · CBC Arts ·
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Legalization is not a simple process. And as the founders of High Art would tell you, bongs don't have to be simple objects. In this video by Jorge Camarotti, Kristian North and Richard Lawson of Montreal's High Art studio explain why they decided to make ceramic bongs into artworks, collaborating along the way with some local painters.

Watch the video:

Inside Montreal's High Art studio

6 years ago
Duration 1:54
Kristian North and Richard Lawson explain the art of bongmaking. Filmmaker: Jorge Camarotti

We were publishing this piece totally casually anyway, NBD, but as North points out of his artful bongs: "It's in the right place in the right time right now in Canada with legalization." Wink.

Follow High Art here. And check out this video to find out how to make your own (much less detailed) bong.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lise Hosein

Lise Hosein is a producer at CBC Arts. Before that, she was an arts reporter at JazzFM 91, an interview producer at George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight and a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto. When she's not at her CBC Arts desk she's sometimes an art history instructor and is always quite terrified of bees.

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