Author Archives: Chompsky

The digital imaginings of Belgian artist Raphal Vanhomwegen, who renders his paintings at speed to maintain sponteneity. Of his foreboding, vertiginous, stream of consciousness architectural visions – depicted in technicolour, neutral shades and moody greys – he tells Colossal:

I am […] one of those people who think nothing is more beautiful than a sketch. I almost never saw a finished drawing look better than a very good sketch. That’s why I almost never finish my drawings. It feels like adding more notes to a perfect musical piece. It’s just not worth it.

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Human fitments with integrated portals, hidey-holes and lounging decks for cats by Colombian furniture designers CatLife.

Your cat has already ordered several pieces in your name.

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As a prima ballerina in New York during the 1960s, Marta C. González performed Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake perhaps hundreds of times.

Marta had Alzheimer’s and recently passed away. But in this poignant footage, filmed last year in Valencia, interspersed with clips of her past performances, she is reanimated by the music of the ballet, recalling choreography that she still knew by heart.

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