Yong ho ji: mutant mythos tire sculptures. May 14, 2010 ji yong ho: mutant mythos tire sculptures ‘deer head 3′ tire, steel, wood, styrofoam 29x21x38 in. (74x53x97 cm) 2007 (image: gana art) ‘mutant mythos‘ is a collection of sculptures by korean artist ji yong-ho. the pieces are made by hand from recycled tires and include animals, humans, and combinations of both. ji calls his variations ‘mutants’ to refer to both their hybrid forms and the mutation of media that their creation requires. sizes vary from an eleven-inch-high dog, to a wild goat with horns that is five-feet-tall to a 10-foot-long hammerhead shark. The pieces were first exhibited at gana art, new york in 2008 and have since been shown around the world. ‘rhino head 1′ tire, steel, wood, styrofoam, 2008 (image: gana art) ‘my concept is mutation—mutants. the product is from nature, from the white sap of latex trees but here it’s changed. the color is black. the look is scary. rubber is very flexible, like skin, like muscles’ – YHJ via kitsunenoir.
Viewing Entry - 'SOCIETY'. A Stunning, Intricate Maze Made From 2,200 Pounds of Salt | Co.Design. Motoi Yamamoto has to be the most patient man in the world. A Japanese artist, Yamamoto uses salt to create monumental floor paintings, each so absurdly detailed, it makes A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte look like child's play.
He calls them, fittingly, his Labyrinths. Yamamoto's latest labyrinth creeps out from a brick tunnel at the Fondation Espace Ecureuil, a gallery in France. He made it -- as he makes all these installations -- by sprinkling salt on the floor through a plastic bottle used for machine oil, starting at the back of the tunnel, then moving forward to avoid stepping on the designs he's already drawn. The whole thing took 50 hours over the course of five days and a whopping 2,200 pounds of salt. Here's an older installation at Sankt Peter parish in Cologne: The story behind Yamamoto's salt sculptures is sweet and sad. Yamamoto takes pains to extend the metaphor beyond the walls of the art gallery. Nail Art. 3D Paintings on Panes of Glass. Using multiple layers of clear glass, Canada based David Spriggs and Chinese born Xia Xiaowan, transform flat artwork into 3D sculptures. Viewers are treated to different shifting perspectives of the works based on where they stand in the art space.
Spriggs work revolves around powerful explosive imagery, often resembling storms, cosmic blasts or firework like explosions. Xiawan’s “spatial paintings,” which often feature distorted figures, are drawn individually using colored pencil on tinted glass. Only when these pieces are combined on their floor racks do the images create the whole hologram like effect. See Also INCREDIBLE 3D ILLUSTRATIONS JUMP OUT OF THE SKETCHBOOK For more on David Spriggs see his beautiful website at davidspriggs.com or for more on Xia Xiaowan see Wikipedia Above and Below: Xia Xiaowan’s distorted 3D figures Artist: Xia Xiaowan Below: David Spriggs beautiful paintings fill the room with stormy emotion. Artist: David Spriggs. Little People – A tiny Street Art Collection | Street Art Utopia.
Seaweed. Amazing San Francisco sculpture made of toothpicks. Rolling through the bay is an abstract toothpick sculpture of San Francisco. It has about 100,000 of toothpicks. The amazing part, is that it has four ping pong ball paths that roll through different landmarks of San Francisco. Scott Weaver has spent about 3000 hours on it over a period of 34 years.
Here are the individual components of this toothpick sculpture. Bay Bridge Fullsai Dragon Painted Ladies Palace of Fine Arts Palace of Fine Arts and Painted Ladies Ferry Building Coit Tower Alcatraz Sky Banner Background See also: