Visual glitches and asymmetries of the human form sculpted from blocks of laminated wood by Perth based artist Paul Kaptein.
Kaptein is currently exhibiting at Krauss Gallery NYC where – should you be in the neighbourhood – the full 360° discombobulation of his pieces can be appreciated to full effect.
A conceptual fashion/art project by of geist.xyz which, as you already knew, is a study of ‘handcrafted algorithmic textiles and procedural surfaces’. To wit:
A synthetic ghost shifts simulated textiles from passive matter to live organisms. They behave like apparitions in an artificial choreography, with movements that are imaginary yet familiar.
All right then.
Gabriel Dawe is one of nine artists commissioned to create ‘room sized’ works for the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery in Washington this year.
This 5.8m hight work, stretching from the floor to the ceiling of the gallery and entitled ‘Plexus A1’, uses 9.7 kilometers of polyester sewing thread in 15 colours to represent the full spectrum of visible light.
Now for you.
A logarithmic depiction of the known universe by musician and artist Pabloi Carlos Budassi using deep space photographs collected from NASA pieced together to form a map where each consecutive ‘ring’ represents several orders of magnitude further than the adjacent one nearer the centre.
The image was inspired and informed by similar (but less impressive) images created at Princeton University in 2005.
Giant version here.
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Tales From The Smith – a series of comic bookcovers featuring The Cure’s Robert Smith as sundry vintage monsters by Brazilian artist Butcher Billy.
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Dubln based artist Shane Finan writes:
I am a Dublin-based artist and have created a painting that is split into 96 pieces. These are being sold to raise money for a series of exhibitions in Ireland, Wales and Scotland through a Swiss art gallery, Wandelbar Art International. The painting represents the idea of one whole being split into many parts and the hope is that these parts spread around the world, splitting the painting up permanently.
More info here.
