Thoughts

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  • LOST LANDS

    September 12, 2014

    This set of images from Japanese photographer Osamu Yokonami shows an obsession with uniformity and his penchant for creating surrealistic, dreamlike scenes. His portfolio of work varies from gritty black and white photos, to saturated, sun-drenched documentations of daily life, but there’s always a sense of a story hidden somewhere behind every photo. See more […]

  • BRUTAL BEAUTY

    September 2, 2014

    “The landscape is so unique—brutal and inhospitable one moment, and tranquil and serene the next.” Outliers, Vol. I: Iceland is a 75 minute long love-letter to the land of fire and ice. A collaborative project between filmmakers, photographers, and a musician, who all meet for the first time in Iceland, the video documents the breathtaking […]

  • NARRATIVES IN SOLITUDE

    August 28, 2014

      There are some people who are simply unafraid of hard work; it might please them to spend hours toiling away at their craft, in the hope of achieving a specific outcome that they have envisioned in their mind’s eye. Artist Amy Bennett is one such person. To create her paintings, Bennett works in a […]

  • SWEET DREAMS

    August 26, 2014

    If the eyes are the windows to the soul, then the subjects of Chinese photographer Wang Ningde’s unsettling portraits are forever closed off to the world around them. Drawing on the themes of constant change and the haunting memories of the Cultural Revolution, Wang’s photos are a revisit to the photographer’s memories of his childhood […]

  • OF MEMORIES PAST

    August 21, 2014

    Diane Meyer’s multi-media work, blending old photographs and the forgotten art of cross-stitching, questions the modern-day problems of anonymity and identity in a world where our public and private lives are increasingly scrutinized. The old photos (Of herself? Friends? Family?) seem both familiar and unnervingly detached; eerie, yet oddly comforting. See more of Meyer’s work […]

  • NATURAL GROWTH

    August 19, 2014

      Strange Plants is both a celebration of and a reflection about the role that plants play in our lives.  A myriad of flora is represented and reinvented in this book, in which artists were invited to contribute both new and old work involving nature. “The artists in this book were challenged to think about […]