Beauty isn’t easy. Ask any peacock who has to lug around all that heavy and extravagant plumage. In Laurel Roth’s series Peacocks, their plumage is borrowed from our own human adornments.
About the work:
These peacocks borrow human mating plumage, anthropomorphically showcasing our adaptations and natural orders as their own. They are made of fake fingernails, barrettes, nail polish, false eyelashes, and jewelry to represent the choices involved in biological processes that are unique to humankind.
Together We Are Greater, an origami sculpture by British artist Jacqui Symons, is a delicate web of 2,500 folded paper boxes. Made entirely of recycled, used, or throwaway paper, the installation hangs suspended as a gently undulating color spectrum, a quiet reminder from Symons of the planet’s ecological fragility.
- Maggie
Multidisciplinary artist Guy Laramee has worked as a stage writer, director, composer, a fabricator of musical instruments, a singer, sculptor, painter and writer.
So I carve landscapes out of books and I paint Romantic landscapes. Mountains of disused knowledge return to what they really are: mountains. They erode a bit more and they become hills. Then they flatten and become fields where apparently nothing is happening. Piles of obsolete encyclopedias return to that which does not need to say anything, that which simply IS. Fogs and clouds erase everything we know, everything we think we are.
Recycled Plastic Bottles Partially Filled with Colored Water Used to Create a Parking Canopy
by Designer Garth Britzman of Lincoln, Nebraska
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Lisbon-born sculptor David Oliveira creates delicate figurative sculptures using wire that’s formed to look like manically drawn ink sketches on top of photographs. Some pieces are even hung by invisible filament creating the illusion of hovering in place. See much more of his work on his website and Facebook. If you like these also check out the work of Gavin Worth. (via my modern met)
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Alyson Shotz, The Geometry of Light, 2010
John Currin - Rachel in Fur - 2002
this is tame for his stuff, but i love the fur texture
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Sculptures from the exhibition Finding Freedom by Sayaka Ganz. Some of my favorites, there are so many to choose from! Each of these sculptures are made from recycled material. She creates a sort of majestic movement with these animals and it really appears as if you have captured them in the midst of flying, swimming, or running.
“It is a way for me to contemplate and remind myself that even if there is conflict right now, there is a way for all the pieces to fit together.” - Sayaka Ganz
