Blogs. Amazing 3D Street Art Paintings. Mind-Blowing Illustrations by Loopy Dave. Xandy Peters' Design Portfolio. Bent Objects. Inorganic Flora by Macoto Murayama. The first solo exhibition of japanese new media artist Macoto Murayama, who layers the worlds of biological investigation, artistic design, and historical study in his collection of digital prints. Read more about the process of creating these pieces on Designboom. THEARTISTANDHISMODEL. Thing in a Jar. Thing in a Jar 7 inches by 4 inches, mason jar Pictured above is the Thing in a Jar that's usually sitting in my office at work.
The coolest thing about the Thing is that everyone responds to seeing it by asking questions. Where did I find it? The Thing in a Jar is made out of Sculpey, acryllic paint and rubber cement. This is the third Thing in a Jar I've made. Here's a conceptual sketch I made of this Thing before I sculpted it. 1.5 by 2.5 inches, ballpoint pen Usually when I make a Thing in a Jar, I try to keep the shape ambiguous enough so that the viewer cannot really pin down exactly what they're looking at.
The glass jar acts as a physical barrier, preventing the viewer from directly accessing its contents. I think this is much cooler than, for example, a painting, which basically has this big implicit sign hanging off of it that says, "I am just a painting of an object, not the object itself. Viewers of The Thing in a Jar do not have this preconception. Update OK here's what you do. Leaf Cut Art by Lorenzo Durán.