This artist makes seemingly random squiggles look like all different types of animals!

Seoul-based artist Lee Sangsoo proves that you don’t need to be true-to-life to create striking works of art. Instead, he masterfully bends, twists, and coils strips of spray-painted metal to capture the essence of different kinds of animals in minimalistic, abstract sculptures.

While Sangsoo’s style may be simple, his portfolio proves the breadth of its potential. With just a couple of metal pieces, he creates stretching Siamese cats, pink flamingoes, and perched macaws, to name a few. The mesmerizing movement of the curled medium is both effective at communicating the shape of the animal and mesmerizing to look at.[…]

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