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Today we’re talking about the weirdest trees in the world, from the psychedelic rainbow eucalyptus, to the dragon’s blood tree, to the jabuticaba that grows delicious fruits on its trunk.
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Anja Christoferrsen was born with extra and missing organs — a series a birth defects that left her incontinent. Thirty surgeries later, she’s accepting of her body and refuses to hide it. Subscribe to ABC Science YouTube 👉 https://ab.co/2YFO4Go
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VACTERL association is group of birth defects that occur in the early stages of embryo development. VACTERL is an acronym where each letter stands for the affected anatomical structure: V is vertebral, A is anal, C is cardiac, TE is tracheal-oesophageal, R is renal and L is limb. The acronym sometimes includes S for single umbilical artery. It’s a rare condition that is diagnosed during pregnancy or at birth. For health advice, speak to a GP: https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/austr…
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AUGUST 28, 2024GRACE EBERT
“Gesturing for Her to Follow (130lbs times two)” (2024), glazed stoneware and hardware, 112 x 101 x 3 inches. All images courtesy of the artist and albertz benda, New York|Los Angeles
Beginning with 130 pounds of soft clay, Brie Ruais sculpts radial forms that capture her body’s movement and proportions. The amount of material aligns with the artist’s weight, which she heaves from a central point to create the appearance of bursting outward. Each textured wall work freezes an imprint of her body, while glazes in deep charcoal, blue, beige, and rose conjure the elements of earth, water, air, and fire.
Following a recent move from New York to New Mexico, Ruais has experienced high frontal winds, which can reach up to 50 miles per hour at their spring peaks. The artist credits these gusts with “pushing her forward” into a new series, which will go on view next month at albertz benda.
Petaling Inward, Piercing Outward, 130lbs” (2024), glazed stoneware and hardware, 66 x 66 x 4 inches
Bone Dice takes its name from “Early December in Croton-on-Hudson” by Nobel Prize-winning poet Louise Glück. Describing a car breakdown on a cold winter day, the poem speaks to human vulnerability in the face of nature’s power but also chance and desire.
Long, sweeping gestures evocative of wind and waves characterize Ruais’s works, and recent pieces like “Gesturing for Her to Follow (130lbs times two)” and “Holding the Space Between Two Waves, High Tide (130lbs Cut from Low Tide)” augment radial shapes with crescent-shaped curves. Glazed in shades from navy to a pastel, sky blue, these forms echo both waxing and waning moon phases. […]
“Holding the Space Between Two Waves, High Tide (130lbs Cut from Low Tide)” (2024), glazed stoneware and hardware, 77 1/2 x 71 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches
More: Using Her Body Weight, Brie Ruais Heaves 130 Pounds of Ceramic into Radial Sculptures — Colossal
