i wish i had credits for this but i dont know who made it.
ractured and contorted human bodies become living sculptures
all images courtesy / © bill durgin
by manipulating the human body into contorted geometries and abstracted formations, american photographerbill durgin plays with the observers perception of the scene. the curled up, fractured anatomies — some semi-concealed behind boxes and wooden blocks – study the corporal limitations from a fresh angle, resulting in a series photographs that are both fascinating and slightly disturbing. working with his own body, and sometimes with dancers and performers who take contortion to the extreme, the artist realizes a collection of living sculptures. with only a small portion of skin, muscles and limbs exposed, the viewer is left to interpret which part of the body they’re actually looking at, as shoulders seem like knees, and necks could be calves. deconstructing the physical characteristics and intermixing them with inanimate objects results in anatomical-cum-architectural compositions.
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This is what my parents think the subway looks like. And considering they haven’t ridden it since 1981, it’s not terribly surprising. Excerpt from DesignBoom.
christopher morris captures the gritty NYC subway in 1981
all images courtesy/ © christopher morris
whether you live, have visited or are contemplating taking a trip to new york city, american photographer christopher morris proves that you might not have wanted to be there in the 1980s. at the time, the urban landscape was littered with graffiti, crime and grime, and the underground metro system took the brunt of it. patterning nearly every inch of the train’s interior and exterior walls and surfacing the waiting platforms are a chaotic mess of layers upon layers of street tags, stickers and filth.
morris’ series of images ‘NYC subway 1981′ reveal the poorly-lit subterranean sphere during rush hour — bustling with hoards of commuters pressed up against filthy windows — and at night — when the often edgy scenes expose criminal activities publicly and frequently taking place there. not only do the pictures acknowledge the disrepair of a metropolis in despair, but they also establish a tone of some major cultural milestones. one of the photos taken is of two of the city’s ‘guardian angles’, an organization founded in 1979 to combat widespread violence in the subway, watching over the scene, which illustrates one of the first attempts to improve the situation. another is a rare shot of an original work by artist keith haring crudely drawn on the platform, expressing the street culture of the 1980s. fortunately a bygone era for a now-mended and reorganized commute operation, the series verifies that new york has seen it all.
Typographic works by Jessica Svendsen
Artist Caleb Charland (previously here and here) just unveiled several new images from his Back to Lightseries, where the artist uses nails inside fruit connected with copper wire to create functional batteries. Harnessed to a small lightbulb, the current is sufficient enough to provide illumination for long exposure photographs. Effectively, the organic batteries create enough voltage to light their own portrait. Charland says about Back to Light:
My current body of work, Back to Light, expands upon a classic grade school science project, the potato battery. By inserting a galvanized nail into one side of a potato and a copper wire in the other side a small electrical current is generated. The utter simplicity of this electrical phenomenon is endlessly fascinating for me. Many people have had the experience of drawing power from fruit in the classroom, and it never ceases to bring a smile to the face or a thought to the mind. This work speaks to a common curiosity we all have for how the world works as well as a global concern for the future of earth’s energy sources. […] My hope is that these photographs function as micro utopias by suggesting and illustrating the endless possibilities of alternative and sustainable energy production. The cycle that begins with the light of our closest star implanting organic materials with nutrients and energy, is re-routed in these images, Back to Light, illuminating earth once again.
Charland is currently focusing on his work full-time from a studio in Bangor, Maine, where he created another body of work titled Artifacts of Fire and Wax.
Christina Paik creates gorgeous portraits mainly of young women. Her photography does not only reflect the beauty of her models but also her love for analoge photography. Her pictures are vivid, expressive and full of emotions. Christina lives between Paris and New York City. She is one of the ’30 UNDER 30 Women Photographers’, a project that features the best female photographers under 30 where you’ll definitely find some more inspirational photography. You can also find more pictures from the young talent on herTumblr.
The art of Paco Pomet is highly iconoclastic. He possesses a wonderfully bizarre sense of humor that manifests itself in his oil paintings which contain a strange or humorous visual twist. His subverted landscapes and portraits often borrow from sepia-toned photographs that look like historical documents or vintage photos. There is a parallel to traditional Western Art, mixed with a monochrome effect that restates the documentary character of the original piece.
the good guys
the conversation starts
left right left right we march
like a never-ending parade
of women confused and played
re-washed and xeroxed till the ink is dull
each copy less vibrant than the one before.
its the same everytime
dropping each petal of confidence on a dime
wondering why love didn’t…
Working with stacks of found wood, Dutch artist Ron van der Ende assembles gigantic bas-relief sculptures inspired by space, nature, industry, as well as retro technology and vehicles. The original color and texture of each wood fragment is left intact, making each sculpture into a mosaic containing both a new image and the history of its materials. Van der Ende has so finely honed his technique that one might first assume when viewing a sculpture that they are instead paintings. Because of the artworks strong sense of perspective, some viewers have reported feeling dizzy when first encountering one of his sculptures.
You can see much more of the artist’s work on his website and he’ll also be showing work through Ambach & Rice in April at the Dallas Art Fair.
A current resident of Amsterdam, Louis Reith is an incredibly talented artist who can turn old pieces of paper and maps into inventive pieces of art. I love when an artist can take an object and give it new meaning through subtle intervention, where you’re really seeing the object in a new light or situation, but you’re still aware of what it originally was.
The maps folded into mountains at the top are particularly lovely. The varying heights and subtle gradients of colors really work together. The subtractive work below is also incredible, bringing a sense of geometry and order to a photo of a fountain or a series of archways in a dense swamp. Great work overall, now I need to email Louis to see if I can afford one!
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