Tenuously related to the day that’s in it, Chicago artist Jim Bachor has been repairing the city’s potholed pavements and roadways with pop, cone and ice cream sandwich mosaics for the last three years.
He calls them Treats on The Streets.
As well he should.
Polisario Soldiers stand posed as toy soldiers in a bomb crater from the conflict
British photographer Simon Brann Thorpe’s project Toy Soldiers (collected in a book of the same name) – a commentary on the conflict still raging in the Western Sahara after 40 years, largely ignored by Western media.
The photographer collaborated with a military commander to have real soldiers pose as toys.
Paperbridge by environmental artist Steve Messam: a free standing arch (no glue or fixings, just gravity and friction) spanning a stream at Grisedale Valley in Cumbria.
Constructed from 22,000 sheets of bright red paper, the ‘bridge’ weighs over 4.2 tonnes. Messam sez of it:
Paper is a simple material made from wood pulp and water. The intensity of colour used in the bridge contrasts with the verdant landscape making a bold statement of form and design. Alongside this the materials used have a resonance with the natural environment and the construction of the bridge also reflects local architectural forms, specifically pack horse bridges found throughout the area. All of the paper used in PaperBridge will be recovered and returned to the Burneside Mill for recycling into new paper once the project ends. This transparent cycle is part of the overall environmental narrative of the piece.
The colour, texture, form and detail of bird plumage captured by haute couture fashion photographer Thomas Lohr.
Ninety eight OCDelicious 2.5 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm cubes of raw unprocessed food, cut, arrranged and photographed by artists Lernert and Sander for a photo feature in Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant.
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Eight piece nesting doll sets by Andy Stattmiller.
Available to marvel at (or to own for $3000 a set) at 1988 Gallery in NYC.
Previously: Matryoshka Wars
A series of murals by In The Company of Huskies creative agency for legendary Dublin gay bar The George.
Aleesha writes:
With May 22nd drawing ever closer, Huskies were invited to The George to help celebrate the institution’s 30 years by chronicling milestones in LGBT life in Ireland
How We See – a sightly unsettling eyelid-painting series by photographer Laurie Simmons.
An exhibit at the 2015 Venice Art Biennale by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota featuring 50,000 keys (donated by the public) suspended from a vast interlaced network of red threads over two boats.
It explores the notion of memory. But you knew that.
