Twinkling Hope and Dream Light Sculpture. We have come across Makoto Tojiki’s impressive LED light sculptures before and, now, the Japanese artist and designer once again inspires us with his new piece, Hope and Dream. The artist created this piece for luxury beauty brand Clé de Peau Beauté, a place dedicated to beauty intertwined with a respect for the earth and its resources. The installation is present at the brand’s 30th anniversary celebration, an exhibition called L’art de la Radiance, at Artistree in Island East, Hong Kong.
Tojiki is known for using light as his primary medium to explore how light and shadow can be controlled. He says his creative process involves, “breaking down the light and the shadow to capture the essence of their symbiosis resulting in fleeting images that are as ephemeral and enigmatic as shadow itself.” Makoto Tojiki’s websiteClé de Peau Beauté websiteArtistree website via [Designboom] Digitally Reworked Photos Turn Women into Androids. California-based digital artist and photographer Michael Oswald, better known as MichaelO, transforms photos of women into sensual sci-fi fantasies. Using his expertise in graphic design and general artistic skills, the artist takes photos of models and then reworks the images to reflect a new scene. His work combines the utilization of photo manipulation through editing tools like Photoshop mixed with digital painting.
It's always fascinating to see what new elements a creative mind can conjure up from an already produced art form. MichaelO's series of works featuring female androids called AmalgaMATE, which is created by his master manipulation of photographs of real women, is especially alluring. Getting to see his final product as a scantily clad automaton, marionette, or some other sort of otherwise inanimate object in a sexualized form is both eerie and intriguing. MichaelO website. The Slow Transformation of Growing Grass Sculptures. We first came across artist Mathilde Roussel's growing grass sculptures when they were exhibited at the Invisible Dog Gallery in Brooklyn, New York back in September 2010.
Since then, the young French artist has created a new set under the Lifes of Grass name, most recently at the Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art in Nashville, Tennessee. In this series of photos, notice how she shows the slow transformation of the suspended sculptures. "The natural world, ingested as food becomes a component of human being," she says on her website. "Through these anthropomorphic and organic sculptures made of soil and wheat grass seeds, I strive to show that food, it's origin, it's transport, has an impact on us beyond it's taste. The power inside it affects every organ of our body. Mathilde Roussel's website. The Art of Colorful Mimicry. A personality is as unique as each one of us. But, what happens when we start to mimic aspects of other people?
Do we lose ourselves? It seems possible that we are always picking up habits of others and constantly adapting to our surroundings. In this series entitled Mimicry, photography team GiesenLeenders (Maurits Giesen and Ilse Leenders) work together to explore and visually discuss these interesting concepts surrounding identity. The inspiration for the project came from, “The uniformity of human beings, from people whose identity is missing, and those who are inconspicuous in our society.” GiesenLeenders website via [Lustik] Hauntingly Beautiful Long Exposures. Combining their talents in performance art and photography, Aloyse Blair and Janelle Pietrzak teamed up to create their first solo exhibition, a series of large, vivid color photographs entitled Liminal Rites. The two artists have been collaborating for almost two decades, combining their friendship with artistic integrity to produce these stunning results. "Liminal" is an unstable threshold through which transformation occurs, shifting from one state to the next.
Within these photographs, the viewer’s eye is instinctively drawn first to the streaks of light, but upon further reflection, faint traces of female figures are revealed. Blair said that the final product is not meant to trick the viewers, but is intended to “capture the moment of transformation in a collaboration with the camera.” If you're further interested, you can view these hauntingly captivating photographs at the National Arts Club in New York. Liminal Rites websiteThe National Arts Club. Liu Bolin is Lost in Art. Earlier this week, we brought you the outstanding collaboration between French street artist JR and Chinese contemporary artist Liu Bolin, aka the Invisible Man, in New York City.
The performance and unveiling of the mural was all in preparation for Bolin's gallery showing in Soho. This solo exhibition presents a large portfolio of photography, documenting Bolin's public art performances as well as a few new additions to his existing, ongoing series — Hiding in the City and Hiding in New York. Additionally, the exhibit, cleverly titled Lost in Art, features Bolin's first sculptural endeavor. At My Modern Met, we are big fans of the Invisible Man's camouflaging technique and have written about his impeccable execution countless times. However, his latest sculptural project known as Chargers Series is an entirely new undertaking. His piece Peony features carefully sculpted cellphone chargers, shaped to look like peony flowers. Liu Bolin on artnet via [designboom]
Photos that Challenge Your Perception of Reality. If you think you know what you are looking at in German photographer Martin Waldbauer’s images, look again! Nothing is quite what it seems in these digitally manipulated photos and photomontages. From a tightrope walking little girl reaching for the moon to the ghostly remnants of a female figure on a chalkboard, Waldbauer forces upon his viewers a perception of reality that doesn’t quite make sense. Waldbauer’s biography reads, “Photography from the heart! Total amateur.” But surely, viewers can argue that this artist is much more than just an amateur. The creativity in his compositions is delightfully surprising. Martin Waldbauer’s website via [Illusion] 3D Sculptures Made from Dangling Strands of Elastic. South Korean artist Hong Sungchul creates three-dimensional string sculptures in his series entitled String Mirrors. The artworks depict several close-up, intimate shots of the human body, focusing heavily on interlocking hands and arms to represent a shared human experience.
The most fascinating part about Sungchul's work is the unconventional medium used to reflect his message. Hada Contemporary describes Sungchul's construction as "a visual representation of what ties humans together from the earliest stage of life — the umbilical chord. " Rather than simply displaying a large framed shot of the outstretched, grasping hands, the artist uses dangling strands of elastic with images printed on them to produce an intriguing installation portrait. It's an interesting technique to represent human connectivity through a series of parallel, layered strings. They don't necessarily touch, but when brought together, there is a bigger picture to be seen.
Spectacular Double Exposure Oil Paintings. Korean artist Ho Ryon Lee's series entitled Overlapping Images incorporates a double exposure technique that is typically used in photography. The remarkable thing about this body of work is that the images are, in fact, oil paintings. The realistic renditions of the multitude of scantily clad women in these works employ a layering method that plays with opacity. There is a simulated sense of motion, as though we're able to view several moments in time at once. While the paintings reflect movement, they also exude a slow-motion sensuality. In most of Lee's work, he represents a headless or faceless female form. It is a primal depiction of the male gaze and perhaps even illustrative daydreams of the adolescent male mind.
There's something about his work that seems voyeuristic while simultaneously celebrating the beauty of the female body. Ho Ryon Lee on Galerie Bhak via [faith is torment] Two People Transform Into Nine Strikingly Unique Couples. Photographer Nacho Rojo and his girlfriend are the subjects of his series Couples, where the two present themselves as strikingly different characters within various social groups. The results of their creativity and extreme styling really entice the viewer to think about the concepts of identity and social behavior. General style, gestures, posture, facial expressions, hair, body piercings, and tattoos visually lead the viewer to create a certain narrative about each couple.
However, when you break it down, Rojo and his girlfriend are the same person behind each costume. They change nothing but their outer facade, which raises the question of how we might tend to identify other people based on appearances alone. It’s amazing how drastically the couple can “change” from one image to the next just with a raise of an eyebrow, a pucker of the lips, or a shrug of the shoulders. Nacho Rojo’s website via [Petal Pixel] Planet Earth on Fire Pit. This hand made fire pit is not only a wonderful source of heat, but also an outstanding work of art. The Third Rock Outdoor Fire Pit is made of made from a quarter inch thick carbon steel and has an iron oxide finish. The size of the fire pit is about 42 inches tall with a 36 inch diameter. Rick Wittrig, the designer, has brought out the hidden fiery inner core of the earth with this piece.
This simple yet powerful work makes the idea of setting the world on fire not so bad in this case. The fire pit looks gorgeous and keeps you warm, achieving a perfect balance as functional art. Fire Pit Art Website via [Cool Material] Stereographic Illustrations of Monsters. Incredibly Creative Sand Portraits. Russian photographer Chertkova Svetlana uses sand found on the beach in incredibly creative ways. Not only does she use it to create fake clothes, she artistically forms spellbinding patterns and shapes surrounding her beautiful human subjects. You may find the last couple photos in this series to be the most moving. Titled "Between the End and Beginning," Svetlana states: "Those who complete the process of death and rebirth are connected to the true source of spirituality and realize that the roots of the mechanistic and materialistic world is fear - fear of birth and the fear of death.
"Following the death of the ego significantly increases the ability to enjoy life. The past and future seem relatively less important than now, and the excitement of the process of life supersedes the pursuit of goals. This person begins to perceive the world as patterns of energy, but not as solid matter, and its border with the rest of the world become more mobile. " Introducing Vigan Tafili aka. Nagivity. Wonderfully Creative Fairy Tale-Inspired Illustrations. My Modern Metropolis Wonderfully Creative Fairy Tale-Inspired Illustrations Based in the UK, artist Adam Oehlers transports his viewers into the dark and playful fantasy worlds of his illustrations. The artist pairs each unique illustration with a telling title and a short history to draw his viewers into the story. Oehlers describes each scene as, “a grim, cobbled place that is trapped in its own time, with some little elements of odd magic which creep in at the edges.”
The character-based scenes draw from fairy tales as well as Oehlers’s interactions with the world. Adam Oehlers's website You might like: My Modern Shop Spotlight - Buddy Bravo's Inspirational Posters 19 Amazing Paintings, Not Photos If Mermaids Existed in Different Cities Around the World Believable Relationship Scenes Constructed in Photoshop Recommended by Views: 3366 Tags: Adam Oehlers, Wonderfully Creative Fairy Tale-Inspired Illustrations, art, illustrations Share Twitter Facebook Facebook Add a Comment Sign Upor Sign In. Skillful Yarn Bombing Street Art. Yarn bombing, there’s just no stopping it!
This expressive and crafty form of street art is literally covering the nation. Yarn-bombing artists everywhere work to wrap mundane objects like street signs, buses, stairs, and poles with colorful patterns and knitted stripes that brighten up the world. Magda Sayeg, known as the “mother of yarn bombing,” founded Knitta Please in 2005 and now works fulltime to bring life to this skillful artform. Ironically, she admittedly rarely knits. She said that her main motivation is, “To encourage others to create and participate. Magda Sayeg’s website via [2photo] Mind-Boggling Shadow Art from Trash Sculptures. British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster are a creative team known for their experimental art including these mind-boggling light and shadow sculptures. The duo forms abstract works from, which upon first glance, look like nothing other than straightforward piles of trash.
The excitement for the viewer comes when a single light illuminates the pile and creates an entirely new piece of art—usually portraits of themselves—formed with the combination of light and shadow projected onto the wall. Throughout their careers, the artists have, “played with the idea of how humans perceive abstract images and define them with meaning. The result is surprising and powerful as it redefines how abstract forms can transform into figurative ones.” Tim Noble and Sue Webster’s website via [Wicked Game] Delightful Pantone Color Dessert Tarts. D*Face Takes Over the Streets of New York. Magnificent Giant Sculptures of Everyday Objects. Mike Stilkey's Awesome Book Art Arrives in Hong Kong. Grinter Spencer: The Creative Ransom. Unbelievably Mysterious Tree Sculptures.
Spectacular Hanging Cups Installation. Impressive Spider Eye Collage. Radical Vertical Chessboard. Green Army Men x Skateboarders Mashup. Happy Material Chairs. The Last Supper Made of 20,000 Spools of Thread. Incredible Making of the 3D LEGO Chalk Drawing. Room 42: Where Bizzare Happens. Seasonal Dinner Plate Landscapes. Hanging Sculptures at the Guggenheim. Dreamy Window Collage Structures. Shape-Shifting Space Invasion. Giant Rubik's Cube Mosaic of Martin Luther King Jr. The Spooky Shadow Hiding Within. Wild Stainless Steel Tree Sculptures. Chaotic Brushstrokes Signify Movement. Spectacular Art in Motion. Berlin’s Festival of Lights 2011. Hitchcock x Angry Birds Mash-Up. Pixel art book jackets. Blogs. Coffee Love picture on VisualizeUs. Human Root Sculptures.
Psychedelic Three-Dimensional Paper Sculptures. Rock N' Roll Albums Blended into Real Life. Amazing Multi-Layered Sculptures. Clever Street Keyboard. Spectacular Fashion Fantasies. Captivating Mural on L.A.'s Streets. Immersed in a Giant Pattern. Digital Art Museum of the Future. Inside Out. Creative Shark-Inspired Art. Cute and Quirky Conceptual Photography. Incredible Action Sports Photography. Imaginary Road to Nowhere. Vinyl Music Icons. Mischievous Everyday Objects. Origami That's Floating Away. Photorealistic Street Art. Retro Muppet Concert Posters. Massive Street Art Characters. Invisible Tree Trunk Forest. School Supplies Made of Fabric. Underwater Photos that Resemble Baroque Paintings.