I’ve definitely posted about her before, but here’s another look at the incredible work of Heather Hansen.

Splayed across a giant paper canvas with pieces of charcoal firmly grasped in each hand, Heather Hansen begins a grueling physical routine atop a sizeable paper canvas. Her body contorts into carefully choreographed gestures as her writing implements grate across the floor, the long trails resulting in a permanent recording of her physical movements. Part dance and part performance art, the kinetic drawings are a way for Hansen to merge her love for visual art and dance into a unified artform. The final symmetrical patterns that emerge in each pieces are reminiscent of a Rorschach test, or perhaps cycles found in nature.

Hansen most recently had a group exhibition, The Value of a Line, at Ochi Gallery in Ketchum, Idaho which runs through March 31, 2014. All photography above courtesy the artist by Spencer Hansen and Bryan Tarnowski. If you liked this also check out the work of Tony Orrico. (via iGNANT, My Modern Met)

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Dear Future Daughter:

1) When you’re at some party, chain smoking on the roof with some strange girl with blue hair and exorbitant large dark eyes, ask her about her day. I promise you, you won’t regret it. Often times you’ll find the strangest of people have the most captivating of stories to tell.

2) Please, never mistake desire for love. Love will engulf your soul, whilst desire will emerge as acid, slowly making it’s way through your veins, gradually burning you from the inside out.

3) No one is going to fucking save you, anything you’ve read or heard otherwise is bullshit.

4) One day a boy is going to come along who’s touch feels like fire and who’s words taste like vanilla, when he leaves you, you will want to die. If you know anything at all, know that it is only temporary.

5) Your mental health comes before school baby, always. If its midnight, and you have an exam the next day but your hands have been shaking for the past hour and a half and you’re not so sure you want to be alive anymore, pull out that carton of Ben and Jerry’s and afterwards, go the fuck to bed. So what if you get a 68% on the exam the next day? You took care of yourself and at the end of the day that will always come before a high test score. To hell with anyone who tells you differently.

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— Abbie Nielsen 

VLF Introspective Car  ::  Benedict Radcliffe Dalston Jazz Car

hard for me to pinpoint why i love these so much.  they just feel so raw and real to me.  loving this. loving sanfran. xxo

in 1978, photographer janet delaney moved to san francisco’s south of market district, a neighborhood that represented the epitome of the american dream: blue-collar workers, small business owners and families with children. even before apple and google, the area was subjected to intense gentrification, highly affecting the local working class and low-income residents, often displacing them from their homes. in ‘south of market’, delaney uses a large format camera to document the economic effects of urban renewal, providing eerie visuals in a testament to the ghosts of a vanished community.

‘as I continue to photograph in san francisco and in urban areas around the world,’ explains delaney in her book. ‘I see that who plays and who pays remains, as it always was, the central issue,’ she adds. the photographs provide a look behind the lives of twelve of delaney’s neighbors during the time, portraying a vivid story of san francisco’s rapid development before silicon valley was established as america’s tech-hub for innovation, creativity and even more so now, the wealthy.

All images © Lucas Zimmermann | Via: This is Colossal

Image © Gigja Einarsdottir

Magyar’s life of travel honed his skills as an observer and reinforced his sense of being an outsider. At one level he seemed in constant motion. At another level he was capable of remaining still for long periods simply watching the flow of life. He once spent six months studying the movement of the river in Varanasi, the ancient Hindu capital on the Ganges. During that trip, he asked Zazi to bring him a book on introductory photography that he had won as a prize years before in elementary school. “I was almost 30,” he said. “And I started learning about apertures and light and developing my stuff in a darkroom. I loved it.” A year later, he documented daily life at a private school in Darjeeling, a Himalayan hill station in northeastern India, and his series of black-and-white photos won first prize in the annual Hungarian Press Photography competition. “He never worked too fast,” Zazi remembers. “If he found a person or a place intriguing he’d stand around for hours.”

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While vacationing on the Maldives Islands, Taiwanese photographer Will Ho stumbled onto an incredible stretch of beach covered in millions of bioluminescent phytoplankton. These tiny organisms glow similarly to fireflies and tend to emit light when stressed, such as when waves crash or when they are otherwise agitated. While the phenomenon and its chemical mechanisms have been known for some time, biologists have only recently began to understand the reasons behind it. You can see a few more of Ho’s photographs over on Flickr.

In the midst of our daily binge of emailing, Tweeting, Facebooking, app downloading and photoshopping it’s almost hard to imagine how anything was done without the help of a computer. For Venezuelan artist Rafael Araujo, it’s a time he relishes. At a technology-free drafting table he deftly renders the motion and subtle mathematical brilliance of nature with a pencil, ruler and protractor. Araujo creates complex fields of three dimensional space where butterflies take flight and the logarithmic spirals of shells swirl into existence. He calls the series of work Calculation, and many of his drawings seem to channel the look and feel of illustrations found in Da Vinci’s sketchbooks. In an age when 3D programs can render a digital version of something like this in just minutes, it makes you appreciate Araujo’s remarkable skill. You can see much more here. (viaArchitectureAtlas)

Gustave Courbet The Origin of the World  ::  ORLAN The Origin of War

Contact 1 (2004)

Isaque Pinheiro

Corban Walker

“Walker is an artist known for his investigations of perceptions of scale and architectural constructs. At four feet tall, the artist’s personal relationship between self and the built environment is fundamental to the way he defines and develops his work.

Embracing concepts of both architecture and minimalism, Walker uses specific local and cultural philosophies to encourage viewers to reexamine the way they conceptualize, navigate and interact with their surroundings.

The artist’s work is marked by carefully considered shifts in proportion and balance and is also distinguished by a diversity of materials and media ranging from painting, drawing, photography, digital art and sculpture to large-scale and site-specific installations.”

1. Mapping Hugh Lane

2. Untitled (10 X 4 Miter) 

3. Zip

4. Please Adjust

5. Mapping 5

6. Runway

7. Off the Glass

8. TV Man

Tumblr Artist

Louise McNaught | on Tumblr (UK)   

Louise McNaught‘s creations feature nature, animals, and the celestial realm in glorious, blazing neon hues, where the animals are God-like, Sublime and ethereal in their luminescence. Not wishing to limit herself or her subject matter, McNaught has a mixed-media approach which usually manifests in painted-drawings on traditional and sometimes unusual supports, such as celestial maps. Her soft style suggests a delicate relationship between nature and ourselves, making a clear point about man’s destruction of nature - which flutters jewel-like in the balance. By subverting traditional representation she hints at darker consequences, yet paradoxically giving animals an elevated status with the neon paint making them look as though they have their own inner light and are literally shining from within. Just as we use highlighter pens to mark areas of importance, McNaught is doing this with fluorescent paint. By drawing the viewers attention to the animals presence and energy, McNaught is hoping to share with the viewer the awe that the natural world inspires within her.

[more Louise McNaught | artist found at actegratuit]

obsessed with these.  Ink on Carpet, Untitled 2014 by ANDISHEH AVINI

ANDISHEH AVINI

Gallery hopping in Chelsea tonight with Sholley and @idiotsavantegarde

“Process”

tumblropenarts:

Artist Name: Matteo Sanna, “Disposable teens”, 2011, resin, private collection, foto by Saï - Stéphane Aït Ouarab. www.matteosanna.it

Tumblr: http://matteosanna.tumblr.com/