Miniature dioramas in the time of COVID-19 – an ongoing daily series by Japanese artist and photographer Tatsuya Tanaka.
Category Archives: Art/Craft
Ocean Bloom
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‘Oceania’: a collaboration between Shanghai based photographer CheukLun LO and floral artist bloom bloom FLEUR: lush floral bunches floating, partially submerged in dark waters.
Make of them what you will.
Inky Thinky
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The science textbook illustration style tattoos of Bologna based needle-jockey Michele Volpi.
Botany, anatomy, astronomy, cryptozoology: it’s all there for the inking.
Chicago based artist Seamus Wray – sporting an appropriately locked-down facial expression – channels the Droste effect, painting portraits of himself painting portraits of himself painting portraits of himself, and so on.
Zoe
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The whimsical face coverings of illustrator Kit Layfield, each connected to collar-mounted contraptions containing fantastical ecosystems. Viral prophylactics? Environmental statements? Expressions of humanity’s simultaneous dependence on and exploitation of the natural world?
Make of them what you will.
More of his work here.
The incredible, ultra-photorealistic ballpoint pen portraits of Nigerian artist Patrick Onyekwere, each one meticulously shaded and crosshatched from a few snapshots of his subjects.
From The Instagram account Plague History, wherein famous works of art observe correct cover-up protocols.
(Above: the work of Kahlo, Vermeer, Arbus, Richir, Michelangelo, Klimt, Rembrandt and Bouguereau)
Seriously though, wear a mask.