Lucy Glendinning created the series ‘Featherchild’. Usually the Somerset based artist starts with a poem or a short statement wich is inspired by philosophical questions, medical information, psychological studies with imagined projections into potential futures.
Her current series is called ‘Will we be able to resist it?’, asking if we will be able to resist improving ourselves. Lucy explains: ‘To save a person from disease is one thing and obviously wonderful, but will we be able to resist improving the well? Will this become a commodity and make the gap between the rich and poor more than money but into genetically different species?’ With her works, she is exploring the alterations we might find desirable and how our future children might look. ‘A natural reaction seems that it is a bad thing, to improve the well, but is it? Has evolution put us in charge?’
ART: The Kiss by Maria Anwander
“The Kiss was given to the MoMA as a donation without asking for permission. I entered the museum as a regular visitor and gave an intense French kiss to the wall.”
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Rene Magritte La Robe du Soir :: Annie Leibovitz Jessica Chastain for Vogue
“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
1. Multiple Solutions Puzzle
2. Fractured Figure Sections
3. Figure Cube
Capturing Aura Portraits with @jalvarezcastillo
For more from Josefina’s #peoplesaura series, follow @jalvarezcastillo on Instagram.
For Buenos Aires art director Josefina Alvarez Castillo (@jalvarezcastillo), creative work is a way to bring out the best in people.
“As a creative director, I work to help people make their businesses shine with ideas and design,” she says. “My work consists of making people see the beauty in things—but far more to see their own beauty, learning how to accept and love their inner selves.”
With those goals in mind, Josefina created her own series on Instagram, #peoplesaura, where she captures portraits in front of circular objects or designs. As she explains: “The circle behind their head represent their holiness. I believe that we are all saints.”
Want to capture your own #peoplesaura portrait? Josefina has some tips to share:
- “Start looking for circle shapes in the street, your house or wherever you are.
- "If the theme of the aura is related to the personality of the person you are going to shoot, it’s even better!
- "Look out for the symmetry in the composition of your photo and point your camera straight towards the eyes to capture their humanity better.”
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Frederic Fontenoy - Alkama (2003) - Blood and milk
Brendan George Ko created the series ‘And Cheese!’ as something between the staged and the real. The pictures were developed in China, where it is also common practice to smile, wave at the camera, and appear to be happy during a photographic opportunity.Brendan George Ko says: ‘There I saw a variety of things that were extraordinary and absurd to my North American perspective, and realized how I can be charmed by the notion that this, this spectacle, this beautiful, funny moment is just part of the everyday there.’ He started to see these strange but oddly real situations everywhere and decided to create the following pictures. To estimate if they emerged from real or staged situations is up to you.
Valerie Hegarty - Rothko Sunset. Foamcore, canvas, paper, paint, glue, wire, tape, sand, gel medium, 42”x32”x8” (2007)