Category Archives: Art/Craft

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Ghost In The Machine –  part of a current exhibition at New York’s Joseph Gross Gallery by artist Ted Lawson, who attached himself intravenously to a CNC machine, supplying his own blood as ‘ink’ to print a life size nude portrait of himself.

The term ‘selfie’ doesn’t quite do the thing justice.

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‘Experimental typography abstraction’ by Pakistani illustrator Omar Aqil.

To wit, each character of the word ‘ethos’ rendered in the style of high-ranking regalia of different civilisations: Native American. Egyptian Pharaoh, Samurai, Greek King and Turkish Sultan.

Ethos?

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Ethos.

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