A (Sundance and SXSW official selection) short by Ellen Evans featuring the contemporary diorama work of UK-based Kath Holden and her mother Margaret Shaw of Delph Miniatures. As Kath sez:
“I like to represent now. The era I life in. If we don’t do miniatures of what we do now, how will it be represented in the future?”
The dubious, Instagram-friendly creative oeuvre of Brazilian tattoo artist Helena Fernandes.
‘The Secret Of the Great Pyramid’ by French artist JR – thousands of strips of paper pasted to the courtyard outsde the Louvre by 400 volunteers to create a massive ephemeral anamorphic illusion celebrating the 30th anniversary of the now iconic but once reviled Louvre Pyramid. To wit:
The sun dries the light glue and with every step, people tear pieces of the fragile paper. The process is all about participation of volunteers, visitors, and souvenir catchers. This project is also about presence and absence, about reality and memories, about impermanence.
The life sized crocheted and knitted figures of Finnish artist Liisa Hietanen – all modelled on friends and neighbours in her hometown of Hämeenkyrö. She sez:
“I meet my models in natural everyday situations. The process of choosing a model is intuitive. The person depicted might be someone I meet in the library, in the locker room of the gym, or walking their dog on the way home. I don’t know most of my models beforehand but as the process goes on I get to know them.”
Once complete, Liisa’s yarny doppelgängers are displayed in the town and have also featured in group exhibitions.
More of her work here.
The mechanically operated flip books of artist Juan Fontanive, wherein 4-colour screen prints of 18th and 19th century natural history illustrations are extrapolated to contour the effect of birds hovering and in flight.
More of his work here.
A time-lapse of woodworker Andy Phillip hammering, sanding, turning and polishing a scrunched-up roll of aluminium foil into a shiny sphere worthy of Phantasm.
The impossibly delicate hand-painted art of UAE based artist Julia Ibbini.
Ibbini’s laser-cut, algorithmically generated paper sculptures are inspired by Islamic absract art, embroidery and meenakari enamel work – each one built up in multiple layers and meticulously coloured in brilliant shades of pink, blue, yellow, and orange.
A fascinating mini documentary by Kevin Staake, appropriately tilt-shifted to illustrate the morbid miniatures of Abigail Goldman.
Goldman – an artist, former reporter and current public defender at Bellingham, Washington – creates dioramas of death and destruction based on the gruesome crime scene photos and autopsies she observes in the course of her day job.
A 751-piece monochromatic tribute to the 1928 cartoon that introduced the world to Mickey and Minnie Mouse.
The set features hidden wheels, moving steam pipes and crane, rotating paddle wheels, special Mickey and Minnie monochrome minifigs, Mickey’s parrot, Minnie’s guitar and music sheet, and a “potato bin”.
€90 from LEGO.
Three dimensional paper typography by Portland-based artist and graphic designer Alia Bright – writ large in elegantly combined colours, curves and shadows.
