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Geometric Patterns Form DIY Animal Sculptures Designed by Paperwolf | Colossal
MARCH 7, 2022. GRACE EBERT All images courtesy of Paperwolf, Wolfram Kampffmeyer (previously) crafts vibrant, geometric snakes and jaguars that appear to plunge from the wall. The German designer has spent the better part of a decade prototyping digital renderings … Continue reading
Artist “Draws” Amazing Portraits by Weaving Thread Around Nails | My Modern Met
By Margherita Cole on March 4, 2022 This is art you’ll want to get in real close to appreciate the hard work. Instead of drawing with pencils, Konstantin Hlanta “draws” with string. The self-taught artist creates vivid works of art … Continue reading
Through Bronze Mushrooms and Gilded Cicadas, Xiaojing Yan Links Chinese Legend and Nature | Colossal
MARCH 2, 2022. GRACE EBERT “Tiger’s Embrace” (2021), painted wood The wide, reddish-brown fungi known as lingzhi, or reishi, has long been revered as the mushroom of immortality, said to grant eternal life to anyone who consumes one of its … Continue reading
Polished Feet and Ears Emerge from Rugged Hunks of Marble in Dorothy Cross’s Sculptures | Colossal
MARCH 1, 2022. GRACE EBERT Detail of “Blue Dive” (2021), sodalite, 70 x 30 x 30 centimeters. Photo by Stephen White & Co., courtesy of the artist and Frith Street Gallery. In Dorothy Cross’s “Blue Dive,” a pair of feet … Continue reading
Musicians Harmonize with Plants and Birds in Gaspart’s Soothing Digital Illustrations | Colossal
FEBRUARY 28, 2022. GRACE EBERT All images © Gaspart Twined with leafy vines, Gaspart’s series of digital illustrations titled Birds, Plants & Musicemits the calming, lyrical presence we need right now. The collection, which was inspired by research detailing the effects … Continue reading
Embroidered Sculptures Recreate Lifelike Mushrooms, Lichen, and Fungi in Thread | Colossal
FEBRUARY 25, 2022. GRACE EBERT All images © Amanda Cobbett Amanda Cobbett suspends a singular moment in the fleeting lives of fungi by stitching their likeness in thread. The textile artist photographs and gathers specimens that she brings back to … Continue reading
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