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Fiber Artist Creates Large Woven Wall Hangings and Installations
Source Design You Trust Based in Oakland, California, fiber artist Meghan Shimek creates large scale woven wall hangings and sculptures. Her engaging work is ethereal, whimsical and delicate, but rooted in the warm, earthy materials she uses. Exploring organic movement, Shimek’s weaving style allows the fibers to fall into an indeterminate pattern that reveals the…
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Featured Artist Rebecca Berman
Source Artsy Shark Painter Rebecca Berman creates dreamy whimsical characters with expressive eyes. Enjoy her portfolio and view more art on her website. “Fern” acrylic on board, 8″ x 8″ I love a good story. If I don’t understand someone’s behavior, I make up a backstory to fill the void. I make up…
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1,300 Oil Paintings Flow Through a Dreamlike Animated Music Video for The Beatles
Source Colossal London-based animator Em Cooper captures the hazy daze of slipping from wakefulness to slumber in a new music video for The Beatles’ “I’m Only Sleeping.” The short animation stitches together 1,300 oil paintings on celluloid that swirl and twist from one scene of euphoric stupor to the next. “We used to listen to this song…
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Delicate Slivers of Air-Dry Clay Form Breezy, Idyllic Landscapes by Alisa Lariushkina
Source Colossal All images © Alisa Lariushkina, shared with permission One can almost feel the breeze as it swishes through grasslands and ripples streams in the swirling textures of artist Alisa Lariushkina’s bucolic landscapes. Based in Vilnius, the artist draws inspiration from earlier works or from photographs that people share with her. Composed from delicate…
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Shaped Like a Mushroom Cap, This Sustainable Pendant Lamp Is Grown from Fungi
Source Colossal All images © Myceen, shared with permission Fungi isn’t usually something we welcome indoors, but Estonian studio Myceen sees home decoration a bit differently. Focusing on furniture and interior design products, the team has found an enlightening application for mycelium, the fibrous root-like system produced by fungus that spreads below the Earth’s surface…
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Dried Flowers Are Arranged into Passageways and Processions in Installations by Rebecca Louise Law
Source Colossal “The Womb” (2019), Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park. All images © Rebecca Louise Law, shared with permission. Photograph by Chuck Heiney For millennia, dried flowers have been prepared for a vast array of uses ranging from decoration and fragrance to pigments and medicine. British artist Rebecca Louise Law taps into our perennial…
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Photographer Levon Biss Illuminates the Strange, Otherworldly Chrysalises of Butterfly Pupae
Source Colossal All images © Levon Biss, shared with permission A photographer known for using the macro to investigate the micro, Levon Biss (previously) continues his explorations into the vast world of entomology. His recent butterfly pupae series centers on “the diversity of design and form” through illuminating portraits of approximately 30 specimens as they…
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Diverse Ecosystems Merge in Hyperrealistic Paintings of Flora and Fauna by Lisa Ericson
Source Colossal “High Tide” (2022), acrylic on panel. All images © Lisa Ericson, shared with permission Ecosystems intermingle and mammals find themselves immersed in an increasingly watery world in Lisa Ericson’s hyperrealistic acrylic paintings. A hare and a mountain goat, which would typically be found in dry climates or high elevations, stand atop a small…