THE PATENT
P21–PETing · Austrian Patent Office · Filed 2011
TRANSSUBSTANTIATION
From bottle to fine art — in 30 irreversible steps.
Patent Certificate No. 509067, Austrian Patent Office, Vienna, 15 June 2011 — the only patent for thermoplastic fine art in the world.
In 2011, Leo Haz filed and received P21-PETing — a technical patent covering any thermoplastic reaction for artistic purposes. It is the only patent of its kind in the world.
The patent does not protect a product. It protects a transformation — the precise moment waste becomes fine art. No other artist holds this claim.
Every PETing work is the product of a documented, patented, irreversible process. To own one is not merely to own an object — it is to own a singular act of transmutation.
