All I can say is “whaaaat!?” These are beyond neat, and make me want to go run into the forest to make art. Now.
This is an ongoing series of constructed photographs rooted in the forest. These works, carried out in Surrey, Hampshire and Wales,involve site specific interventions in the landscape, ‘wrapping’ trees with white material to construct a visual relationship between tree, not-tree and the line of horizon according to the camera’s viewpoint.
These ‘tree portraits’ are simply stunning. When I think of portraiture, I usually think of human, and possibly a dog here and there. The use of naming to provoke a different context is very powerful. These portraits make you think of each of these trees as a life, something that has existed, that needs documentation. Probably more, but I won’t go on. Sometimes the simplest works of art can provoke the most meaning.
Müge is a graphic designer. My heart skips a beat a little when I find more and more trained graphic designers acting as artists, and other such creation-based professions. The professional terms are starting to blend, and it’s seeping out everywhere. The question is, now where do we find ourselves?
Portfolio: Müge Yilmaz
The nostalgia that paint by numbers have in my heart are taken to a whole new level with this work by Trey Speegle. I remember spending countless hours trying to perfectly color realistic versions of horses or flowers onto these thin canvases that I could parade around with and show off to my parents and grandparents. Mixing typography with this childhood obsession is so fantastic in my mind.
Referencing something that so many people have an emotional or historical attachment to is very good art sense, and I applaud Trey for playing on these different contexts. It’s something to keep in mind while designing.
All artwork found here.
How rad are these?? These were made for the Dossier Journal. The colors, the shapes, just everything makes my eyes do the happy dance. Picture that. Happy dancing eyes. Oh yes. Found here.
Hisham akira bharoocha is a japanese-born artist concentrating on creating visual art, photography, and music based in brooklyn. Presently, hisham is focused on creating work that shows the absurdity and logic of how the mind functions, what kind of relationships it creates between experiences, and images that we absorb through our senses moment by moment. Visit hisham’s personal site here.
How incredible are these posters? They were created by Korean design studio Sulki & Min. Using the folds of the photographs as a natural placement for body copy and subtext is just brilliant. There really is something to simple beauty.
Richard Mosse’s series infrared has been stunning me for days. I can’t stop thinking about this visually enticing series of infrared photographs that he took of rebel groups in the congo. You can find the entire series here.
Richard Mosse (born 1980, Ireland) is a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship 2011, with a generous supplemental stipend from the Leon Levy Foundation. Mosse, currently based in New York, earned an MFA in Photography from Yale School of Art in 2008 and a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, London, in 2005.
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