Nicholas Scarpinato is a fine art photographer from Richmond, Virginia. His love of photography began at a young age with a camera his parents had at their home. What he chooses to photograph is images that tell a story, a secret that is waiting to be unearthed, a memory or a place in time. While the initial photographic capture is important, the ensuing creative process is the distinguishing factor in his work. His images are designed to expand the intellectual limits of surreal photography. Please visit his Flickr or follow his Tumblr for more work.
Anne ten Donkelaar created the series ‘Broken Butterflies’ out of a collection of damaged butterflies. Looking at them, Anne decided to repair each one differently according to their needs. She restored body parts using gold, old maps, roots, threads and embroidery and gave the insects new names, names that reveal something about their recovery. For example the The ‘Blauw spinner’ looked like it had died the moment it hatched from its cocoon. So Anne made the body hang from a twig wrapped with blue thread. A few threads are still hanging loose , almost as though the butterfly is slowly unwinding and breaking free from its cocoon.
ugh. so incredibly elegant. there’s something about butterflies.
I dont just like this guy because of how closely our names resemble each other. Rob Kesseler is really onto something here. gorgeous photographs. See more at his site or at Butdoesitfloat.com
yet another insanely phenomenal work by Anish Kapoor. Why is he brilliant? why does he make all the work that i want to make? man, i’m jealous of this guy’s thoughts.
‘Shooting into the Corner’ consists of a cannon developed by artist Anish Kapoor together with a team of engineers. A pneumatic compressor shoots 11-kilogram balls of wax at 20-minute intervals into the corner across the room; all in all, 20 tons of wax were ‘fired away’ throughout the exhibition run in 2009. Loud aggression on the one hand and silent growth on the other give the piece tension, sensuality, and compelling power. Go check out his website for more of Kapoor’s fascinating work.
The 365 Knitting Clock by Sirene Elise Wilhelmsen is stitching the time as it passes by. It is knitting 24 hours a day and one year at the time, showing the physical representation of time as a creative and tangible force. After 365 days the clock has turned the passed year into a 2 m long scarf. Now the past can be carried out in the future and the upcoming year is hiding in a new spool of thread, still unknitted.
“Smith’s artwork represents a striving to reconcile the inner world of instinct and the tidal sweep of our emotional life, with an external world that is both beautiful and hostile in its natural grandeur. She attempts to map the place where these worlds intersect.”visualmelt
Ambreen Butt uses hundreds of cast pink fingers that seem to explode on the walls at Carroll and Sons in Boston. Titled I Am My Lost Diamond the piece will be up through December 22. All photographs courtesy Andrew Katz at New American Paintings.
