Photographer David Benjamin Sherry strips away the colours of nature and adds in his own, but instead of creating artificiality, Sherry’s photographs force the viewer to pay attention to the aspects of the landscape that are usually glossed over. The monochromatic landscapes seem otherworldly and unfamiliar, but after a bit of a pause, the mind’s […]

  Sometimes it’s not very easy to understand modern art. A plain white square mounted on the wall? An empty room? That’s when Toni Spyra’s witty street art comes to the rescue. Not to say that his art pieces aren’t conceptual—they require the viewer to think, or at least interpret it in his or her […]

Toshitaka Aoyagi plays with colour in an elegantly simple way—by letting the colour itself interact with the light and its surroundings to create an imaginative, minimal installation. While Aoyagi uses bright, florescent strips to create his work, what the viewer sees is a mere shadow of the colour, diluted down to its reflection on a […]

Part photograph, part moving image, these cinemagraphs created by Julien Douvier are endlessly hypnotic. If it were possible to make a quiet image even more quiet and even more compelling, Douvier does it—tiny little movements, like the twitching of a finger, or the gentle rippling of water, breathe life into these photographs. As still images, […]

American artist William Utermohlen was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 1995, at the age of 61. In response to the illness, and in an effort to try to better understand what was happening to his mind, Utermohlen embarked on painting a series of self-portraits throughout the rest of the years of his life. Utermohlen died […]

“The idea of creating these miniature works came from dream states and how we are able to play with our own identity, to play with different roles we take on in our dream state,” artist Kendal Murray says of her tiny sculptures. “The miniature works serve as a metaphor for intuitive thoughts.” The worlds created […]