Digital collages merging vintage photographs, botanics, astronomy and all manner of scavenged copyright-free imagery by anonymous Greek art duo Frank Moth, who describe their work as “nostalgic postcards from the future.”
Available as prints here.
Category Archives: Art/Craft
Journalist Claudia Romeo of Food Insider meets Jean-Yves Bordier – proprietor of St Malo’s Le Beurre Bordier where traditional 19th century butter-making methods are king.
Hand-kneading, finger-slicing and the use of the wooden malaxage wheel.
Kinky.
Alarming new visualisations in the ongoing kid-art to photoshop project by artist and dad Tom Curtis.
See also: the work of Dave Devries, Tatsputin and Dom’s dad
At first glance, the work of Sofia Crespo may resemble the 18th century renderings of Louis Renard or Albertus Seba but a closer look reveals disturbing alien glitches in the natural world: conjoined fish, featherlike blooms and malformed wingless insects.
Entitled ‘Artificial Natural History’, the project uses artificial neural networks to generate the illustrations, which Crespo describes as a form of ‘Renaissance humanism’:
Our visual cortex recognises the textures, but the brain is simultaneously aware that those elements don’t belong to any arrangement of reality that it has access to…
Well it all looks perfectly nx6xqssttk to us.
The work of Warsaw-based artist Nespoon at the Cité de la Dentelle et de la Mode, the fashion and lace museum of the city of Calais – lace capital of the world back in the late 19th century.
The artist chose her intricate motif, which dates back to 1894, from the institution’s archive before spray painting it onto the building.
She is the best and her mouth is so distracting but in a fun way
An affectionate tribute by Kelly Lassere.
Behold: the psychedelic illustrations of Madrid-based artist Luis Toledo – otherworldly scenes and composite characters formed from vibrant blocks of colour, patterns, and mundane objects, like pineapples and leaves. Sez he (to Colossal):
I am interested in working on the complexity of human beings and animals, working against the medical anatomy atlases that try to simplify living beings. Nature always develops complex shapes, and I try to imitate that…
The very pleasing embroidered aerial landscapes of Devon-based Victoria Rose Richards: textured French knot forests, satin fields ’tilled’ with seed stitch, sudden multicoloured flights of fancy and minuscule added detail including teeny sheep, farm gates and wheeling birds.
Previously: Aerial Embroidery