Category Archives: Art/Craft

A vast bird sculpture sprawls on a mountaintop at the 65 acre environmental tourist destination of Jatayu Earth’s Centre at Kerala in India. The centre is a collaboration between the Tourism Department of Kerala and film director Rajiv Anchal. The bird is the stuff of legend.To wit:

Based on the epic story of Ramayana, Jatayu is a noble bird of divine origin who lost his wing and fell while fighting to protect a young woman named Sitha. The bird as recreated in concrete at the  Center is 200 feet long, 150 feet wide, and 70 feet tall, with stylized feathers and enormous curled claws.

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The monochrome wallclimbers of Berlin-based Norwegian street artist Anders Gjennestad aka  STRØK – painted on exterior walls and gallery-friendly rusted metal plates and dilapidated wooden doors.

If you’re passing by that way, the artist exhibits next month at Galerie Mathgoth in Paris.

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All manner of domestic items and appliances tightly wrapped in cross-stitched designs by Swiss-based artist Ulla Stina-Wikander: bringing symbolic functionality to a pastime traditionally regarded as (her words) kitsch and worthless.

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The work of Brazilian tattoo artist Duda ‘Tattoo You’ Lozano: inked-on tatts like sewn-on embroidered patches.

Or you could just sew on actual embroidered patches.

Or just leave it and don’t be at yourself.

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Ocean Of Flowers – a 2017 installation by Chinese artist Li Hongbo at Eight One Art Museum in Beijing.

Well known for his paper and glue sculptural work, Hongbo’s garden of 2000 accordion-folded paper guns was a comment on the worldwide proliferation of firearms.

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A 1/6th scale posable collectable of Jeremy Renner’s upgraded Hawkeye character from Avengers: Endgame, complete with masked head, removable hooded vest and arm guards, 12 pairs of hands, bow, katana, dagger, 10 arrows, 12 arrowheads, and four shuriken.

Yours for €202 (+P&P).

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