Source Colossal   “There was a moment when I was walking between forests and mountains in Tepoztlán, Mexico, while dandelions floated across my face,” Alexis Mata says. “In that instant, I experienced a strange sensation, as if I were standing on another planet, in another time, confronted with an entirely new landscape.” As the dainty seeds…

Source Colossal   “Ice burns, and it is hard for the warm-skinned to distinguish one sensation, fire, from the other, frost,” wrote A.S. Byatt in Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice. Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami characterizes ice in Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman as a capsule that preserves the past “cleanly and clearly,” but possesses no future.…

Source Artsy Shark  Artist Mariia Raskin presents a colorful collection of stunning textural collages inspired by her love of nature. The post Featured Artist Mariia Raskin appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Design You Trust  Kateryna Vitkovska is a freelance digital artist and illustrator with a strong, principled stance: no AI. At 31 years old, she is a cat person with three cats, and her passions revolve around RPG video games, fantasy books, and art. What stands out immediately is the combination of technical skill and…

Source Colossal   What is prison for? Touted as both a means of punishment and correction, the U.S. carceral system rarely succeeds at the latter. According to the Department of Justice, more than 650,000 people are released from prison annually, with two-thirds being arrested again within three years. Rehabilitation is the purported justification for locking away…

Source Design You Trust  Elliott Hart is the photographer working with analogue and experimental photographic processes, and his work is developed in the Midlands. What makes the page stand out is the mood: it feels intimate, handmade, and a little otherworldly. The “green fairy” persona fits the imagery and the process-driven nature of the work,…

Source Design You Trust  Athanacaa is a 20-year-old artist whose entire world seems to revolve around birds, fantasy creatures, and ornamental illustration. The work is deeply rooted in a love of ornithology, but it never stays purely documentary. Instead, real species details get fused with fantasy elements, decorative patterning, and a warm, narrative sensibility. What…

Source Colossal   Double can mean many things. It may imply a duplicate, symmetry, a reflection, a twin, a splitting, or even a shadow self. There is an inherent duality that forms around two parts, which may or may not be in concert with one another. Austrian psychoanalyst Otto Rank was the first to describe the…