By Lindsey Bessanon, created by acquiring dried insects and then manipulating the forms with cogs and mechanic parts, bugs are not usually something I find too appealing but with these guys I just think they are really intriguing.
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By Anatolij Pickmann, these drawings are part of a new ad project for Greenpeace, working to highlight the issues surrounding deforestation and overfishing, I’m really enjoying the industrial feel of the illustrations. They have a really powerful aesthetic, the impending doom you get from the frightening machines gives such brilliant impact!
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By Andrei Varga, the eyes on the top images are mesmerising to look at, the whole focus just draws you in with the use of colour and sharpness of focus. These dark, mysterious style of paintings are exactly what redefines a traditional idea of portraiture, I adore them.
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By Catherine Zacchino, AKA Junker Jane, this Portland based art doll maker crafts these simply awesome characters. All made from vintage fabrics and found parts, they have a very particular style which I just adore. Some of the smaller ones have that instant embedded imagery that makes you think of voodoo dolls.
By Nathan Ford, these paintings are a perfect blending of architecture and messy, dribbly paint. The aura that they have is set by the realism of the images themselves and the contrast to that by the way in which they have been painting giving an impression of mystical fluidity. They illustrate what I would imagine painting a dream would look like, or a half forgotten memory, I can’t even articulate how much I love all of his landscape pieces.
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By Pablo Genoves - Precipitates
Digital collage to this level of skill is something to be in awe of, by taking old prints of spectacular interior spaces and then applying dramatic, frighteningly destructive scenes onto them- they blend into something hyperreal. This library is so beautiful you can almost feel the turbulent sea stirring.
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By Gregory Euclide, these ideas about world building and construction have been appealing to me lately, you don’t get much better than this. I’ve seen the idea of a painting pouring from the frame before, but never anything quite so elaborate! The area of the sculpture to the left where it is being built back up is stupendous, the stilts just make it.
He has some gripping images of the construction and development of the whole thing on his Flickr, too good not to see.
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By Takanori Aiba, inventing little worlds like this is something I find deeply fascinating and could get lost into for an eternity. These look like that have been manipulated by tiny people for decades to form amazing architectural pieces.
“…the density of decoration and the rich stories of my works contain extraordinary times and spaces which differ from the bonsai world determined by plants physiology.”
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By Gill Wilson, made from barley straw formed into these delicious shapes and textures that your Spirograph would be envious of, they are made from several layers and set into acrylic frames. I really would adore to have one of these in my house, they have a very naturalistic feeling to them, with the materials used and the textures making for something that feels very beautiful and in touch with the environment.
