99 Feelings is a series of 99 unglazed ceramic babushka’s, created by ArtMind as art objects with added texture or additions to them on the outside to represent a feeling.
Each feeling is subjective and personal and can be anything you feel as there is no ‘right’ feeling for it.
The stunningly beautiful Kusho series, by Shinichi Maruyama, consists of large scale colour photographs showing the interplay of black ink and water, both in midair and on white surfaces, capturing the two colliding liquids milliseconds before they merge into grey.
These photographs display the chance element of the process exemplifying the Japanese concept of wabi sabi – the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent and incomplete.
The Nihonga series, also by Maruyama, emulates traditional Japanese paintings, using photographs recomposited and composed as an expression of Ma, the use of negative space.
Via Graphic Hug.
I have only just discovered the work of German born, American artist Eva Hesse by browsing through my local book emporium and coming across Eva Hesse Drawing, a beautiful book that explores Hesse’s drawing process, following her work from drawing to painting and sculpture.
Hesse was associated with the mid-1960s postminimal anti-form trend in sculpture, and created a considerable legacy of critically aclaimed work, in a ten year career tragically cut short by her death in 1970 at the age of 34.
The ‘Passive Aggressive Anger Release Machine’ is an interactive sculpture by Yarisal and Kublitz. Next time you are feeling angry all you have to do is insert a coin, and a piece of china will slowly move forwards and fall into the bottom of the machine, breaking, and leaving you relieved of your frustration.
It looks like money can buy you happiness after all!
Via One Floor Up.
There is something pleasing about this collection of Thomas Eigel’s photographs of the rear of cargo containers.
Read on for more images.
Canadian artist, David Trautrimas, takes everyday objects like sprinklers, staplers and coffee pots and turns them into digitally enhanced compositions of residences and factories, which he calls Habitat Machines.
Shown here are Oil Can Residence (above) and Stand Mixer Mews (below).
Habitat Machine prints on archival paper are available from Photo Eye Gallery with more to be found at Arteriors and LE Gallery.
David is also currently exhibiting at VISUAL MORPHOLOGY, a group exhibition at Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.
This is the weblog of UK based digital creative IAIN CLARIDGE serving as a repository for random morsels of ocular delight, news, views, obsessions and expressions.
