The elaborate self portraits of Peruvian artist Cecilia Paredes: her exposed skin painted, wearing robes that mimic the ornamental fabric backdrops into which she blends.
Category Archives: Art/Craft
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Ice Bodies
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An eye-candiful machine developed by artist and Museum exhibit designer Shawn Lani that circulates dry ice into a shallow tub of water, resulting in captivating cloud-like motion as the frozen carbon dioxide melts.
Full screen for maximum mesmer.
Aka squid ink flatbread with mushrooms, shallots & herbs: full recipe (and more) at Castellon’s Kitchen.
Biodiverse
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Collaged installations by Berlin-based American artist Claire Börsch: fantastical, dreamlike ecosystems summoned up by amorphous swathes of flora, fauna, human figures and gemstones of which she tells Colossal:
I made a series of collages and then later realized that many of the species in the vintage illustrations had already gone extinct. Humanity has wiped out 68% of all our planet’s biodiversity since 1970, so working with vintage illustrations can be very heartbreaking
The Symptoms
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They Exist
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International works by French street artist Mantra, who has a thing for butterflies – their richly hued scales, their delicate antennae – whether depicted pinned behind the trompe l’oeil of glass display cases or sunning themselves on the side of buildings, as if poised to take flight. Colossal sez:
…the focus on butterflies revolves around his artistic ambitions because the vivid creatures allow him to experiment with color, shape, and texture. Each specimen is rendered freehand before the artist adds detail and the illusory shadows that make them appear three-dimensional. By painting various Lepidoptera species again and again, the artist is “repeating a mantra,” a detail of his practice that informs the moniker he works under.
The Patch: oil paintings by Japanese artist Masakatsu Sashie: intricately detailed urban amalgamations ‘hovering gracefully between the worlds of a nostalgic past and a potentially dystopian future’.
Bit like ourselves, really.