The Canvas Project – whimsical photoshoppery by Portuguese artist Gabriel Nardelli Araujo featuring characters from classical paintings inserted into Araujo’s photographs of public spaces around the world.
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Category Archives: Art/Craft
Helmet Hair
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The foodie delights of Japanese LEGO builder Tary, who also does a nice line in Gundam robots and Star Wars characters.
Splendour
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Behold: the ethereal hypercollages of Canadian artist Ysabel LaMay – each composed of hundreds of merged photographs weaving fragments of plants, animals, and elements into “panoramas of natural splendour”.
A portrait of Jackie Chan composed of differently sized hanging bundles of chopsticks (64,000 sticks in all) created by Malaysian artist and architect ‘Red’ Hong Yi.
Flat Skies
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Playtime
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Tiny worlds, like frozen snow globes, encapsulated within handmade wood, resin and beeswax rings by Canadian jeweller Secret Wood.
No two the same.
Moving Parts
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Birds, insects and other beasts constructed from bits and pieces of discarded bikes, cars, household appliances and metal badges by Eduoard Martinet.
Rather amazingly, the sculptor doesn’t weld, but instead screws and fastens each perfectly chosen component together to create the effect. According to Sladmore Contemporary in London, which will exhibit Martinet’s work this May:
This gives his forms an extra level of visual richness – but not in a way that merely conveys the dry precision of, say, a watchmaker. There is an X-Factor here, a graceful wit, a re-imagining of the obvious in which a beautifully finished object glows not with perfection, but with character, with new life.
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