Recently in Art Category

a billboard splitting this Auckland, New Zealand community. I'm with the painter and the St Matthew-in-the-City church.

more here.
now, I've seen origami done with paper, fabric, and maybe metal. but never . . . latex.

one friend mused, "which means that his penis is shaped like ...".

tiny bit more of the story here.

Vanessa Schnatmeier finds gorgeous beauty in old, tossed pieces of ... cardboard.  applying a scrollwork design to it via the laser cutter, she coaxed out this gorgeous shape that creates intriguing light reflections as it is tilted.



 

Valerie Molnar has created some very interesting splashes of art on walls with yarn.

well, I think of insect collections when I see these little curio cabinet things. but this one holds big and little samples of 3D crochet constructions - no legs but some look like thoraxes. I do believe I've used most of them in my 3D crochet pursuits. very attractive and clever - I like.

and check out their story about engulfing a Seattle forest with yarn this past summer.

I LOVE it when one medium is done up by another! check out this blog of London yarn storming (not yarn bombing) for more stories that involve actual yarn ... and spiders and ...

I keep crossing paths with this lovely piece.  even though I do post a lot of pieces about sex and genitalia, beneath it all I'm moved to address issues we have a tough time talking about - to make them less fermenty, to shed some light on them so they stop smellin' so bad.  and if I can do that with humor, hey, I am so there.

it just so happens that sex is rife with taboos.  but so is religion although it doesn't seem to provide as many opportunities to be quite so funny about it.

while this piece is not funny, it is beautiful and wholly captivating.  just how did Jocelyn Foye obtain all those eucharists?  were they blessed beforehand?  could they be a homemade substitute?  any lightning bolts if you try that at home?  are they the thinner airy ones that dissolve in short order in your mouth or are they the more substantial ones that would make do as a snack?  that was one of the big differences I noticed between my Catholic upbringing during the early years and my Baptist explorations in high school.  the Catholic eucharist tasted just like those penny candies made up of two concave wafers joined around the edges like a spaceship with little hard candies inside.  you could eat those all day and never notice.  the Baptist ones tasted like a sweet meal.  three more and I'd be full.

I saw this piece in the flesh at Works/San Jose in 2006.  I loved staring at it, imagining someone sitting at a worktable with a Dremel tool drilling hole after hole, maybe with a friend attaching c-rings with pliers in a little production line.  I also liked it because it was probably getting someone's eucharistic goat.  and it is delicately gorgeous.

for me, this resonates with Jennifer McNeely's work, Raven Hanna's Made with Molecules, Laura Splan's creations related to viruses and blood.

cigarette butts processed into yarn, then knitted into a garment.

that is truly cool, clever regardless of whether it can work for more than one or scale for a larger market.  being able to imagine this opportunity and see it through to make a clean garment - with gauge ;)  - wows me.

got too much going on in your head?  check out this drawing of Laura Lee Gulledge.

I immediately resonated with this drawing by seeing the little people in the boat symbolizing So Much Advice I often get that just doesn't fit me.

she's posted some other very interesting drawings.  check out her blog.