Thoughts
Upcoming work, news, inspiration, randomness — all that we do and all that is us.
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UNREALITY
February 5, 2015Corey Bartle Sanderson muses over the mundanities of everyday life. His work, entitled Supermarket Simulacrum II, challenges his viewers to question the reality of objects upon observation, and perhaps even more pressingly so, questions the nature of the food and products that we so willingly consume on a day-to-day basis. View more of his […]
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A DIFFERENT TYPE
January 26, 2015Israeli typographer Oded Ezer creates typefaces out of singular features of famous artworks, and the effect is strange, humorous, and at times disturbing. Nonetheless, this play with type serves as an update to sometimes overexposed pieces of work, and helps us to see them in a new light. For more of Ezer’s work, visit here.
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ONE MAN’S TRASH
January 22, 2015Artist Kim Alsbrooks questions the idea of class distinction and status quo by painting historical figures on discarded, flattened drink cans. These portraits, originally painted on ivory from the 17th-18th Century, are recreated on aluminium cans. And Alsbrooks is picky about the cans she uses: “One cannot flatten the trash. It just doesn’t work. It […]
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PIECED TOGETHER
December 30, 2014Japanese artist and cartographer Sohei Nishino creates maps — but not just any maps; visiting some of the most iconic cities across the world, Nishino takes thousands of photos of locations across the city, and then painstakingly cuts up and pieces together these photos to create intricately detailed collages that capture not only the landmarks of […]
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Blending the virtual and the real into alien-looking worlds, Korean born artist Jung-Yeon Min creates modern-day surrealism, inspired by the constant exchange between the tangible and the technological. Tiny figures often appear in the paintings, and Min says that she often puts herself in her dream worlds. “My paintings tell about my life.” See more […]
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Flemish photographer Sanne De Wilde’s subjects for her series ‘Snow White’ are all albinos, people born with a rare recessive gene that strips their skin, hair, and sometimes their eyes, of the colour pigments that humans usually have. “They are a metaphor, a symbol for stereotypes,” De Wilde says. “They magnify the erroneous idea of […]