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. 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. [Images courtesy of Motoi Yamamoto; bottom two photos by Stefan Worring]
Mark Jenkins // Street Installations Kristiansand, Norway London, England Montreal, Canada Cologne, Germany Besançon Rome Rio de Janeiro Tudela London Dublin Moscow Winston-Salem Seoul Royan Bordeaux Puerto del Rosario Barcelona Malmö Washington DC Washington, DC Strange Sculptures Made of Discarded Clothes (15 pics) Chances are that if you ran into Guerra de la Paz's colorful sculptures in an art museum, you'd enjoy them from afar and then take a few steps closer. That's because the Cuban born American artists who make up Guerra de la Paz, Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz, create curiously interesting sculptures made out of old clothes. In fact, they originally took their materials from the waste bins of second-hand goods shipping companies in Miami’s Little Haiti. Exploring materialism in contemporary society, the sculptures are meant to make us think about our "mass-produced refuse." Guerra de la Paz website
Custom Furniture and Cabinetry in Boise, Idaho by J. Alexander Fine Woodworking The Top 50 Pictures of the Day for 2011 Every day at 5pm the Sifter posts the Picture of the Day. Below you will find a collection of the Sifter’s Top 50 from 2011. It’s hard to imagine the year is almost over, time seems to fly faster each successive year so it’s fun to take a moment and look back at the year that was. Click any of the pictures below to be taken to the individual post to learn more about the photographer and picture taken. Enjoy and stay sifty my friends! Exposing Texas's Ungodly Heat, With Giant Melting Crayon Sculptures |... - StumbleUpon Blazes have been ripping across Texas this year, as the state endures its worst drought in history. To educate the public about wildfires, the National Ranching Heritage Center (NRHC) in Lubbock commissioned Tennessee artist Herb Williams to construct a smattering of giant, flame-shaped sculptures, some 8 feet tall, using 60,000 to 70,000 Crayola crayons. As time passes, the crayons melt and warp on the landscape, their slumped forms exposing the parched, blowy conditions that feed real flames. Unwanted Visitor: Portrait of Wildfire opened October 7 and already, as you can see in the photo above, the sculptures have liquefied significantly. Williams built Unwanted Visitor with a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts. “We were very excited about this because their budget has been cut so drastically this year,” NRHC’s Emily Arellano tells Co.Design. [Images courtesy of the National Ranching Heritage Center]
Artful Jellyfish-like Bowls From Upcycled Plastic PET Bottles (Photos) Photos: Gülnur Özdağlar Plastic bottles -- that environmental bane of a disposable, modern society -- can be both an abundant form of pollution in waterways and oceans, as well as a materials source for mind-boggling art. In the skillful hands of Turkish architect and upcycling designer Gülnur Özdağlar the unremarkable PET plastic bottle is transformed into gorgeously diaphanous and functional objects like bowls and jewelry. Using simple tools like a candle, scissors and a soldering iron, Özdağlar upcycles bottles into a bewildering range of ephemeral accessories that under the light, look like fantastical, tentacled sea creatures or little undersea treasures. ... to this: That's pretty neat! Alchemy of upcyclingAs TreeHugger Lloyd has mentioned before about how 'redesign', not recycling, will be the wave of the future, Özdağlar asserts that large-scale recycling is not the solution, rather ... the real solution is "upcycling" rather than plain recycling.
Aurora - artwork by Lawrence Yang - StumbleUpon "Aurora" - ink, gouache and watercolor on paper - 7" x 5" Artwork © Lawrence Yang 2011 my blog | my site | purchase inquiries Odani Motohiko Sculptures - StumbleUpon <div class="noscript"><div class="noscript-inner"><p><strong>JavaScript seem to be disabled in your browser.</strong></p><p>You must have JavaScript enabled in your browser to utilize the functionality of this website.</p></div></div> The page you requested was not found, and we have a fine guess why. If you typed the URL directly, please make sure the spelling is correct.If you clicked on a link to get here, the link is outdated. What can you do? Have no fear, help is near! Go back to the previous page.Use the search bar at the top of the page to search for your products.Follow these links to get you back on track! ShareThis Copy and Paste
Shayna Leib, Glass Artist - Sculptural Glass Art Sculptural Glass Art • Back to Sculptural Glass Art menu The Wind & Water Series Two of the most powerful elements on our planet are nearly indiscernible to the human eye, yet we are innately aware of their presence, their capacity to soothe and destroy, and their ability to weave patterns where they touch. Wind and water possess no intrinsic color, are clear to the point of invisibility, and yet move through space. They leave their mark upon our world. Click on the following link for a glimpse into the working process of the Wind & Water series: Process of Creation Photo Credits