Marcelo Daldoce
This is my life.
so i’m obsessed with this work.
Pinuccio Sciola
the song they play in the background of this video is stupid but this dudes work is fucking tight.
ugh lana. do me.
Martin Mull. No, Seriously.
Martin Mull has certainly earned his place in the canon of exceptional narrative painters, those for whom painting is a delicate and complicated process by which the artist quantifies his/her relationship to the world around them. Mull’s assessments are usually dark, even sinister at times, and this darkness derives from a seemingly inherent flaw in our humanity, as if the figures in Mull’s universe, poised on the brink of personal reflection and faced with the invidious task of self assessment, would suddenly and inexplicably vanish into thin air in a puff of smoke. As with other narrative painters, including Edward Hopper or even John Currin, Mull is less interested in our human failings and much more concerned with the choices we make that determine our providence, collective or otherwise.
Furniture maker Greg Klassen builds intricately designed tables and other objects embedded with glass rivers and lakes. Inspired by his surroundings in the Pacific Northwest, Klassen works with edge pieces from discarded trees (often acquired from construction sites, or from dying trees that have begun to rot) which he aligns to mimic the jagged shores of various bodies of water. The pieces are completed with the addition of hand-cut glass pieces that appear to meander through the middle of each table. You can see much more of work here, and several tables are available through his shop.
The Sell Out, Eric Yahnker
When all that remains from a relationship is the dingy t-shirt, what happens to the memories, the stories and the sentiment? This is what photographer Carla Richmond and writer Hanne Steenmanage to uncover in their collaborative portrait and written word series Lovers Shirts. Photographed wearing their ex-lover’s clothing, the subjects are nameless and their stories are anonymous.
Captured at a time of utmost vulnerability, the portraits show the subjects in a reflective state. Richmond and Steen are not passive observers in the photographic process. Instead, they have a conversation with their subjects by asking a series of memory-provoking questions and documenting their reactions. Their stories are recorded as anonymous statements and strung together as unending poems. What exactly the shirt inspires in those who wear it may be personal, but the photos manage to draw out the unifying qualities of a common human experience – love, or a love lost.
It feels like a flag I can’t stop flying. It comforts me in the meantime between the spaces. It’s just a rag I turned into a promise that he would never leave. Some sort of common thread between us. Part of me wants to rip it off. So many what-ifs and could’ve-beens and should’ve-beens and never-weres. It’s just a shirt. It’s been there for me when people haven’t. It makes me feel childish and taken care of. It makes me look a little stronger than I am. As long as I hold onto the shirt she is never completely out of my life. I’d wear it every day if I could. As much as you build a house around it or put a ring on it it’s all still temporary and dissolving so all you can do is love it. Even if it’s painful we need to hold onto something. Proof that we did it. That we went through it. That we learned something. That our hearts were broken. That we were loved. That we weren’t loved enough. For someone I won’t be something that will be so easily shed.
As a young child, Jake Weidmann had a fascination with handwriting. His mother had a beautiful cursive style, and Jake loved how it looked when her letters were fluidly linked together on a page. Unlike many of us, he knew, at a very young age, what he wanted to be when he grew up. It was during his childhood that he decided to become an artist, making a personal vow that every time he put pen to paper, the results would be beautiful.
During college, he incessantly developed his handwriting, so much so that almost anyone who saw his works would stop and take notice. Fellow college students would ask him to design their tattoos and wedding invitations. Humorously (but factually), his professors knew him as the kid who wrote his essay tests like the Declaration of Independence.
Jake decided to research the old style of writing, and this eventually led him to a YouTube video featuring Master Penman John DeCollibus. To his surprise, DeCollibus created the most beautiful script Jake had ever seen. “It was like watching ballet on paper and from that moment I was hooked,” he said.
Fast forward to today, and now Jake is a Master Penman himself. The road to becoming a Master Penman is a long and arduous one. To earn that title, one must prove their proficiency in the calligraphic arts. Currently, he produces works that blend different mediums in art with calligraphy. He has trained himself to work in several different disciplines like painting and drawing. While he’s known for his beautiful hand lettering, his trademark style is in blending these different art forms to create gorgeous and unique works.
holy shitballs, check this out.
Artist Jim Dingilian has an incredible-yet-unconventional way of creating art. Instead of crafting images with paint or graphite, he uses smoke as his medium. Dingilian fills glass bottles with fume and coats their inside surfaces with soot. He’ll then reach in the vessel to selectively erase certain areas using brushes and small tools like cotton swabs mounted on dowel rods. What results are ethereal, multi-layered landscapes that are awe-inspiring in their subtle detail.
Dingilian’s work is created in found objects with a subtractive drawing method. He must carefully choose what areas to erase and how much he’ll leave behind. Layers are also an important part of his compositions, and Dingilian is able to add depth by using the roundness of the bottle to convey what’s in the image’s foreground and its background.
The artist explains the ideas behind his work, stating, “The miniature scenes I depict are of locations on the edge of suburbia which seem mysterious or even slightly menacing despite their commonplace nature. The bottles add to the implied narratives of transgression. When found by the sides of roads or in the weeds near the edges of parking lots, empty liquor bottles are artifacts of consumption, delight, or dread. As art objects, they become hourglasses of sorts, their drained interiors now inhabited by dim memories.”
The digital playground of Melbourne-based artist Jake Stollery is a place where fashion, science and art collide together. His work explores such themes as the presence of human identity in an ever changing digital landscape and his influences include new media and 90s cyberpunk. The human never looked so cool.
obsessed with this dude.
Ever since I stumbled across Lukasz Wierzbowski’s pictures on Flickr I was stoked by his beautiful collection and came back to check on his latest images regularly. So it is more than time to introduce his photography and show a little excerpt of his work. Make sure to also check his Flickr though, it is worth it. Lukasz lives and works in Wroclaw. In his series he tries to explore the interaction between his model and the surrounding. The result is a somewhat dreamy approach towards photography, giving the viewer the feeling to be able to look beneath the surface. He is bringing flat images to life, thus creates a balance and sense of equality between viewer and model.
this chick is a boss. check out Lina Scheynius’ photostream on filckr here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/linascheynius/with/4924218054/