Inside the exhibit halls of the Brooklyn Museum in New York City is an old Dutch house

from the 17th century.

You can actually go inside and walk around it.

And at first glance, it looks exactly the way you would expect a really old Dutch house

to look.

There is nautical art on the walls.

There are carved sculptures on the fireplace mantle, and then you realize that something

is slightly off.

Everything isn't quite as it seems.

Take the large swinging chandelier hanging from the ceiling.

From far away, it looks like it's made of crystal.

But as you get up close, you realize that instead of glass, each piece of the chandelier is

actually a little plastic bottle, it's a nip bottle like the kind you'd get at the register

of a liquor store.

And it's made of hundreds of nips hanging neatly in tears like this upside down glowing

wedding cake.

Here's the thing.

Someone's come through and given this house a little redecorating.

And that person is an artist named Duke Riley.

One of the ideas that I was sort of trying to do with this show was basically create

like an entire maritime museum that kind of had that feeling of like an old New England

maritime museum, but was mainly focused just on plastic.

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