Part puzzle, part kinetic wonders, part sculpture, all genius. Using mathematical concepts and 3D modeling software to generate his ideas, Brazilian artist Mauro Fuke hand carves wood – sometimes one piece, often many, many pieces that he assembles into moveable sculptures.
Snakess 2
Snakess 2 reconfigured
Spend some time scrolling through the pictures on his site, he has an extensive portfolio that dates back to 1983 – I had a hard time choosing pictures for this post.
Love this collection of Fuke’s rings – I don’t wear jewelry (weird, right?), but I would wear these – what a statement piece!
There is nothing particularly exciting about this video, but in my opinion that’s the point. The work is laborious and slow-moving, however, the results are exciting. Yes.
Yes, I’ve written about it before – my disdain for shoes makes my love of shoes-as-art seem odd and out of place – but it is what it is.
I don’t like to wear them or shop for them but I am fascinated by artistic interpretations of shoes and I own a growing collection of vintage shoe forms that make me smile. It is what it is.
Kate Hopkins-Searle hand builds decorative shoes from thinly rolled slabs of clay. She manipulates sheets of clay over a form, impressing patterns with hand carved stamps, draping the clay and adding pieces that look like fabric frills, bows and rosettes. Each individual shoe takes about 10 hours to make.
“It is difficult to explain my attraction to shoes other than it seems to be something shared with many women and is a theme I have been drawn to since making paper shoes as a child. . .” Kate Hopkins-Searle
“I am fascinated by the details of embroidery and beadwork and the drape and flow of fabrics and recreating the effect of these in clay.” Kate Hopkins-Searle
It’s been more than four years since I checked in to see what paper artist Jeff Nishinaka has been working on and when I did I discovered beautiful paper dragons in his ever-growing portfolio.
Perfect timing. Yesterday marked the Chinese New Year and it just so happens that 2012 is The Year Of The Dragon.
Nishinaka’s work continues to inspire and bring joy. May the Year Of The Dragon bring that and more to you and yours.
Nishinaka talks about the dragon in Chinese culture in this video.
Watch Nishinaka at work in this time lapse video of the artist making a sculpture that took 9 weeks to complete – fascinating.
Notice anything different today? Thanks for your patience as I change things around a bit, do some housecleaning and get DAM ready for this Year Of The Dragon. The new look should be complete in a few days. More to come soon.
The soft curls of Eva Hild’s black and white stoneware sculptures appeal to my penchant for curls and swirls. I have the urge to look deep inside the smooth, sensuous structures and spend some time there.
Bilateral
The hand-built sculptures take 4-6 months to create – after they are built Hild sands the surface until she achieves a smooth, thin surface.
Liaison
“Influence, pressure, strain. These words have been the foundation for my current projects that comprise communicating the theme in large, hand-built clay forms. Delicate continuously flowing entities in thin-built clay. They reflect varying degrees of external and internal pressures, and how, as a consequence, perception of inner and outer space is changed or challenged. My sculptures are bodies, exposed to pressure and movements.”
Spine
“It is a reflection of my inner landscapes of form. Everyday, I experience the tension between presence and absence. The anxiety I feel is both constructive and destructive. My sculptures show me the necessity of opposites; they are paradoxes. Bodies where presence and absence meet. The clay is the prerequisite for creating space, and space is the prerequisite for the form of clay. Empty space as well as clay are my materials.”
Hild in the studio
This video is not in English, but there is enough footage of Hild at work on several pieces that makes the clip quite interesting.
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