A spectacular blocky recreation of Hokusai’s early 19th century woodblock print “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” by Jumpei Mitsui – one of only 21 LEGO Certified Professionals in the world.
400 hours work, 50,000 pieces.
Gnarly, in fairness
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New twistage by wood-wrangling French-Argentinian designer Pablo Reinoso.
His works will be on show at Mad Paris from this month until May 2021, if you’re passing.
Previously: Back To Nature
From the deeply pleasing ‘Winter In Aizu’ (1938) series by Japanese sōsaku-hanga artist Kiyoshi Saitō.
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A new felted installation by artist Lucy Sparrow (top) – you’ll recall her magnificent grocery store, Sparrow Mart).
‘The Bourdon Street Chemist’ is a fully-stocked, woollen pharmacy that will open to the public from mid January 2021 at London’s Lyndsey Ingram.
If your condition is more urgent, you can purchase many of the artist’s plush creations at her online store.
Can you spot the artist’s (deliberate/accidental) mistake?
The extraordinary, swirling multicoloured portraits of Spanish illustrator Martin Sati: facial contours and reflected light rendered with digital ‘material’ which, sez he:
…is like semi-liquid and is difficult to model but at the same time is very rich in movement and liveliness… I work with this material, which I usually call ‘Silicone Pie,’ as an artisan works with ceramics. I am modelling the colours with lines of movement until I achieve an optimal level of detail.
In fairness.
More of Martin’s work here
The COVID19 mRNA vaccine (ie. Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna) painted by artist and biologist David Goodsell. To wit:
The vaccine structure is highly idealized, with spike mRNA in magenta, lipids in blue, and PEG-lipid in green. The background is blood serum or lymph.
In the spirit of biological ecumenism, he did a lovely portrait of the ‘boul coronavirus back in February.
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Behold: the “Zip Fastener Ship’ a sleek silver vessel created in 2004 by Japanese artist Yasuhiro Suzuki parting the surface of Tokyo’s Sumida River. The launch, inspired by a view of the river from a plane flying overhead, has been an annual event since 2018. Suzuki sez of it:
The undertow of the boat, which travels back and forth between Azuma-bashi Bridge and Sakura-bashi Bridge, opened up the water like a zipper to connect the other side of the river. (I hoped) that it would change the way we look at the city landscape.