Pencil Carving. What?
Check out the amazing pencil carving prowess of Mizuta Tasogare and Kato Jado. Add two more people to the list of folks who possess more patience than me. Jessica Harrison’s zombified sculptures. Remember that scene in The Others (boo!
Tom Cruise) when the tension is built and built around who’s cradling the bub (can’t see the face) and then, wham, without a warning the reveal is that it’s a horrificly scarred elderly creature in place of the usually angelic Nicole Kidman. Right? Well, British artist Jessica Harrison’s artwork has the same effect. All together now: ‘ooooohhhhh’. Super Punch: Twisted ceramic figurines by Jessica Harrison. Toilet Paper Roll used for Sculptures. Since childhood, Junior Fritz Jacquet is fascinated by the paper. He explores and experiments with different techniques of folding and crumpling to create new forms and poetic objects that decorate his life. Who could have thought that those toilet paper rolls that we use to throw away into a garbage bin, could be turned into fascinating face sculptures? Do you know what is John Wayne toilet paper? Like this: Christina Bothwell. Frozen in Time. Sculptor Christina Bothwell uses a variety of materials for each ice-like figure—e.g. cast glass, raku fired clay, oil paint, taxidermy, and wood.
Notes about the artist (from Bothwell’s website): In my work I am drawn to the processes of birth, death, and renewal. What lies below the surface fascinates me and I try to capture the qualities of the “unseen” that express the sense of wonder that I feel in my daily existence. Bent Objects.