Source Colossal   In tender paper collages featuring woodland creatures in relief, Kanako Abe imagines dreamlike scenes reminiscent of childhood narratives and folk tales. Giant wolves, diminutive bunnies, and curious deer wander through a Narnia-like realm that we glimpse through foliage-filled portals. In her practice, “the paper becomes a canvas for stories untold, where every cut…

Source Colossal   “Do you ever think about concrete?” opens the trailer for The History of Concrete, a documentary released in select theaters in the U.S. last Friday. If your answer is no, the quirky new feature by filmmaker John Wilson may mean you can’t get it out of your head. Wilson is known for the…

Source Artsy Shark  A buyer’s hesitation may have very little to do with how much they love your art. What are they really thinking? The post When a Collector Loves Your Art, but Doesn’t Buy appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Colossal   In the winning video of Nikon’s Small World in Motion competition, Dr. Ning Xu captures the abnormal beating of airway cilia from a child with Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD)—a genetic disorder affecting respiratory function. “When people watch cilia beating, they immediately understand that something beautiful and important is happening inside us,” says the…

Source Design You Trust  Reza Afshar is an Iranian freelance environment concept artist and illustrator whose detailed digital paintings build vast science-fiction and fantasy worlds. He has worked professionally in video games, film, animation, and trading-card games since 2012, and is described in recent profiles as based in Istanbul. Afshar’s work centers on places rather…

Source Design You Trust  Jesse Manfre is a self-taught graphic designer and illustrator creating under the name J.WAV Design. His work combines bold graphic abstraction, surreal atmosphere, music-world visual language, and a distinctly eerie, dreamlike sense of place. J.WAV’s visual world sits somewhere between a late-night radio transmission, a vintage arcade screen, an abandoned beach…

Source Design You Trust  Sebas Velasco, a Spanish painter and muralist whose expressive oil paintings turn the ordinary streets, apartment blocks, aging cars, and anonymous residents of the Balkans into cinematic studies of memory, place, and time. Born in Burgos in 1988, he began in graffiti and later developed a practice spanning studio painting, illustration,…

Source Colossal   Vibrant, amorphous shapes intersect with squiggles and occasional geometric lettering in the murals of Chicago-based artist Emmy Star Brown. She describes her studio practice as a space where her inner child emerges, paring down her expressions to formal qualities of line, shape, and contrast. In her large-scale installations on urban buildings, which draw…