Floating Garden and Labyrinth – two large scale salt sculptures by Motoi Yamamoto, meticulously hand poured and arranged on the floor of the 13th century French castle of Aigues Mortes.
Previously: Curing With Salt
Category Archives: Art/Craft
The Face
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Imperfect, asymmetrical, minimal and rather excellent oil portraits of female celebrities by British painter Gill Button, aka, Button Fruit.
Name them dames, if you will.
Behold the work of Jane Labowitch, aka Princess Etch-A-Sketch.
Very impressive, when you consider how hard it is to draw even a straight line on one of these cursed things.
The redoubtable 95 year old Al Jaffee describes how he became the ‘Father of Fold-Ins’ – MAD Magazine’s trademark back cover feature.
Kafkaesque
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A twisting reflective kinetic sculpture of the head of legendary surrealist writer Franz Kafka located at a busy shopping mall in Prague.
Created in 2014 by Czech artist David Cerny, the 45 tonne piece consists of 42 individually driven stainless steel elements.
Bromance
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Don And Vlad (together again) by Lithuanian artist Mindaugas Bonanu on the streets of Vilnius.
Good Advice
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An exercise in ‘nano-tourism’ at the Slovenian town of Vitanje (pop: 800, annual visitors 25,000) – home to the Cultural Center of European Space Technologies since last year.
In 2015, the town hosted the AA Visiting School project – a two week experimental architecture course organised by the Architectural Association School Of Architecture in London.
One of the projects was a ‘land installation’ (visible from high altitude) featuring the motto of Douglas Adam’s Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy on a pasture above the town.
The Kiss
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A spectacular large scale mural (part of the Memorie Urbane festival) beneath an underpass in Cassino, Italy by Croatian street artist Lonac.
Ahead of this weekend’s F.A.I Junior Cup final at Lansdowne Road Nua between Dublin’s Sheriff YC and Limerick’s Pike Rovers.
Irish illustrator Kieran Carroll writes:
The images of each is a play on the team names of both finalists. The Sheriff Y.C. idea was an obvious one as I chose a Sheriff to represent the Dublin club. For Pike Rovers I chose a soldier armed with a pike, better known as a pikeman.
The intent here was to depict these old fashioned characters in a modern day battle between the Sheriffs of Dublin and the incoming Pikemen from Limerick…
Fight!