Tag Archives: creatives
‘Ghost Rivers’ Visualizes a Mile-Long Stream Buried Deep Beneath Baltimore | Colossal
OCTOBER 27, 2023 GRACE EBERT Photo © Public Mechanics. Ghost Rivers is a multi-site installation and walking tour that visualizes the path of Sumwalt Run below Remington and Charles Village. How much do we really know about the land we … Continue reading
Medieval Carols – Jeremy Summerly
From the first Christmas song by a 12th-century Northumbrian hermit, through the earliest surviving Christmas carol of the mid-14th-century, to the heyday of the carol in 15th-century England, Jeremy Summerly traces the early history of the worlds favourite musical genre … Continue reading
I promise this story about fonts is interesting
Why do words look they way they do? That was the question that kicked this project off. I pulled at the thread, and it turns out the answer was way deeper than I thought.. […]
Combining Photography & Illustration Self-Portraits | Edge of Humanity Magazine
Photographer Eva Chupíková is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of these portraits. From the series ‘Leaving’. […] A single thought, a feeling Coming and leaving Things live their lives Here and there It´s all just happenstance A fragile chance … Continue reading
Wind Animates Vibrant Fabrics in Thomas Jackson’s Ephemeral Environmental Installations | Colossal
OCTOBER 24, 2023 KATE MOTHES Tulle no. 046” (2022), Nantucket, Massachusetts. All images © Thomas Jackson Ethereal sheets of tulle appear to hover in spectral motion over meadows and in copses of trees in Thomas Jackson’s latest photographs. “If there’s … Continue reading
A New Book Celebrates the Groundbreaking Women Who Changed Land Art | Colossal
OCTOBER 20, 2023 GRACE EBERT Lita Albuquerque, “Spine of the Earth” (1980), pigment, rock, and wood sundial, El Mirage Lake, Mojave Desert, California. Image © Lita Albuquerque, courtesy of the artist and Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles. All images courtesy of … Continue reading
Sumito Sakakibara Plumbs Memory and Time in His Animated Film ‘Iizuna Fair,’ On View for a Limited Time | Colossal
OCTOBER 18, 2023 KATE MOTHES Sumito Sakakibara taps into the nuances of nostalgia, human experience, regret, grief, and what it means to truly be alive. One night, a man’s car goes off the road. His life flashes before him, as … Continue reading
Chris Wolston’s Wicker Chairs Weave Bodily Exuberance with Functionality | Colossal
OCTOBER 14, 2023 JACKIE ANDRES All images © Chris Wolston American artist and designer Chris Wolston (previously) conceptualizes the possibilities of melding the human body with the form of a chair. Emerging from his second studio in Medellín, Colombia, Wolston’s … Continue reading
The politics of fiction | Elif Shafak
istening to stories widens the imagination; telling them lets us leap over cultural walls, embrace different experiences, feel what others feel. Elif Shafak builds on this simple idea to argue that fiction can overcome identity politics. […]
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