Amy Winehouse In Pills: Artist Jason Mecier Creates Tribute Portrait (PHOTOS)

L.A. based artist Jason Mecier has captured Amy Winehouse in this incredible portrait made out of 5,000 multi-colored painkillers.

The soul singer died last month, bringing to an end her battle with drugs and alcohol. Since 2006, she earned a reputation for her struggle with eating disorders and addiction.

The Winehouse pill popping portrait is part of Jason Mecier's series of celebrity mosaics using everything from aspirin to candy and newspaper. Celebrities such as Amy Sedaris and Florence Henderson even send him their own junk. Flip through the photo gallery of Kelly Osbourne, Nicolas Cage, Michael Jackson and other stars.

Correction: A previous version of this post had the artist's name spelled incorrectly. It has since been changed to the true spelling.

Comments

[ThinkGlobal]

03:28 PM on 08/16/2011

Exploitation plaine and simple.

[Max Shaw]

02:40 PM on 08/16/2011

This is way cool. I wonder how ILLEGAL it is to have and use these though? Once its art I guess they cant say much, but if someone stumbled across them BEFORE that..man thats a long sentence!

[class of 666]

11:58 AM on 08/16/2011

how appropriate! shows more talent than she did.

[Hardyman1966]

03:38 PM on 08/15/2011

Tribute?  Opportunistic virus is more accurate, since the medium chosen is not.

[grimcity]

09:43 AM on 08/15/2011

NOM NOM NOM

[Annette Hammond]

09:58 PM on 08/14/2011

I want one made of me with joints.Dont know how that would work.Unless they still sell different colored rolling papers.

[Max Shaw]

02:39 PM on 08/16/2011

indeed they do! and different flavors too..for some reason my friend is obsessed with bacon flavored rolling papers. i honestly get sick just thinkin about it!

[Annette Hammond]

04:45 PM on 08/16/2011

What! LOL.For real.Wow,are you pulling my leg?Bacon flavored huh? I'll have to ask the kis down the street about that one.Or am i being too gullible here? No,would only defeat the purpose.

[spooks12]

05:17 PM on 08/14/2011

Honestly I'm sad that someone died but let me just say something
Justin Allen 23, Brett Linley 29, Matthew Weikert 29, Justus Bartett 27, Dave Santos 21, Jesse Reed 26, Matthew Johnson 21, Zachary Fisher 24, Brandon King 23, Christopher Goeke 23, and Sheldon Tate 27,
these are soldiers that gave their life for you this week, yet you don't have any media on them.

[Annette Hammond]

09:49 PM on 08/14/2011

You have a point.Has to be because Amy was known just about world wide.There's alot of people drawn to the dark side.Not saying she was a bad person,she struggled.

[spooks12]

12:15 AM on 08/15/2011

I kind of have an issue with the fact that everyone was draw to her because she was a druggy. Besides I don't want to be mean but she had one real hit song. Yet people of great value in the world get nothing and it is a tad upsetting at times. Especially one like this. So I do agree with you as to why people were drawn to her though.

[patman77]

02:48 PM on 08/14/2011

not a schedule II narcotic in the whole pic.

[Cordell Cameron]

03:10 PM on 08/15/2011

the small yellow ones could be morphine sulfate. the big white ones could be hydrocodone, but that's a schedule iii.

[class of 666]

11:59 AM on 08/16/2011

you know way too much about the subject.

[Douglas Campbell]

02:22 PM on 08/14/2011

Amy's drugs of choice were heroin and crack cocaine, and booze, not pain pills. this is a gimmicky cheap stunt to cash in on a talented women's lost battle with addiction.

[mystshy]

02:21 PM on 08/14/2011

good ideaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[liondog96]

11:35 AM on 08/14/2011

Some of those pills look like jelly beans. I like the color contrast.

[Bruna Longo]

11:24 AM on 08/14/2011

Vik Muniz does it so much better

[jimtpat]

11:14 AM on 08/14/2011

I knew it!
Amy Sedaris is a fiend!
I've been looking for that remote since 1988.

[bbriani3842]

10:38 AM on 08/14/2011

Proof that you can serve as an example to which others can aspire to be, or you can serve as a horrible warning.

[jimtpat]

10:57 AM on 08/14/2011

Or all three!

[cinjam83]

10:18 AM on 08/14/2011

Amy would have loved this....but in her hands the picture wouldn't have been around after a few days...She's Yesterdays news, and no one cares, can we move on to something more important,like Chickens that play the piano?