Monthly Archives: January 2010

claudia poser celebrates nature’s drive towards growth and change

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Simple shapes altered, grouped together, wearing universally appealing textures and patterns – all add interest to Claudia Poser’s ceramic pods. Poser, who has a PhD in Polymer Science, explains that she uses “an abundance of repetitive, organic shapes to explore nature’s instinctive drive toward reproduction, adaptation and survival that thrives in spite of human efforts to impose order.” Many of her pod arrangements are large wall pieces. Click on the images to see them larger – Damage has my wheels spinning.

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primordial expressions

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salima thakkar: exploration as inspiration

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Some artists put their ideas down on paper in a sketch or words as a way to capture the idea for possible use at a later date. When Salima Thakkar has an idea she skips that step entirely, choosing instead get to work immediately by exploring, experimenting and exploiting materials. The Belgian jewelry artist finds inspiration in the process of trial and error.

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john brickels celebrates the hidden beauty of entropy

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Dilapidated barns, rusty old trucks and cars, factories on the brink of collapse – all are fair game for John Brickels who is inspired by “the hidden beauty of entropy.” The Vermont artist rescues rusted pedal cars and trucks, rebuilding the guts of the cars in stoneware. The tires (flat tires too!), dashboards, chassis, steering wheels, engines – even old tools strewn on the car’s floor in his Claymobiles are all made from clay.

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