Thoughts
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ON THE TABLE
March 2, 2015Damien Hirst has never been one to shy away from controversy, and his latest work is no exception. Entitled Black Scalpel Cityscapes, Hirst makes use of surgical tools to create aerial maps of cities and towns, in a reference to the military tactic of “surgical bombing” or “surgical strikes” — supposedly aimed at minimising collateral damage […]
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FRAGMENTS
February 24, 2015The female identity and societal position is often questioned, challenged, and sometimes, neglected; perhaps it is only fitting that Spanish-based photographer, graphic/web designer and editor Rocio Montoya draws parallels between the female form, and of nature, whose very existence is being endangered. Man becomes the third party and bystander in these collages, which are […]
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AFTERGLOW
February 9, 2015Set designer and artist Barry Underwood transforms everyday landscapes into surreal experiences. Light installations intrude into ordinary landscapes, examining the effects of light pollution. Each ethereal photograph in the series Scenes explores mankind’s power over nature, and nature’s power over mankind, while sparking a conscience about what our impact on nature has been, and will continue to be. […]
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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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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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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 […]