Source Colossal   Inside the cavernous former train station that now houses Hamburger Bahnhof, 400,000 wooden cubes stack and topple into piles. Conceived by Lithuanian artist Lina Lapelytė and commissioned by Chanel, “We Make Years Out of Hours” is a large-scale installation that invites the public to remake structures from these 10-centimeter blocks made of pine…

Source Design You Trust  Chema Méndez is a Spanish digital collage artist based in the Canary Islands who has created mixed digital media works since 2009. His practice merges classical paintings (public domain) with modern photography, 3D renders, AI, and personal sketches to form surreal, layered compositions. Méndez’s aesthetic blends M.C. Escher’s precision, René Magritte’s…

Source Design You Trust  Soonbomb (순범) is a Seoul-based illustrator and tattoo artist renowned for his playful, emotionally expressive cat illustrations. His signature black cat character appears in doodle-style tattoos, minimalist line art, and character-driven designs that blend cute whimsy with subtle narrative depth (“the cat pierced by the moon,” “I will be back”). Soonbomb…

Source Colossal   “We live with so many hard things,” says Sheila Hicks, “that we’re crying for softness.” The pleasure, simplicity, and tactile qualities of textiles ground a new film from Louisiana Channel, which explores the ways in which fiber art remains both evocative and relevant in this increasingly digital era. “7 Artists on Soft Sculptures”…

Source Colossal   Growing up in the Australian Outback, where he first picked up a camera as a teenager to document his surroundings in the bush, Jon McCormack developed a keen eye for the beauty and subtleties of nature. Throughout his career, he’s stepped foot on all seven continents. Yet the idea for his new book,…

Source Artsy Shark  Featured artist Sandra Harris captures the essence of her subjects with a passion for faith and love of nature. The post Featured Artist Sandra Harris appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Colossal   What better way to meditate on nature’s most majestic features than to recreate its details one stitch at a time? Since picking up a needle and thread in 2020, Cassandra Dias has translated rugged cliffsides, neat vineyards, and sun-streaked mountains into lush embroideries. The Southern California-based artist uses a technique known as thread…

Source Colossal   Over the course of two decades, Queens resident Joe Macken meticulously built an entire city from the ground up. In fact, he built New York City—the whole thing—one building, house, and bridge at a time. Now, his expansive scale construction is on view in He Built This City: Joe Macken’s Model at the…