Catchall

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artandsciencejournal:

The Uncanny Feather

Using biological elements to create fluid forms of movement, artist Kate MccGwire takes bird feathers and assembles them into strange, intertwining forms. Playing with materiality, the artist uses feathers to mimic flowing water or curving scales, creating “images that both attract and disturb the viewer” – an unnerving beauty.

Is it a new creature, or a plant? Perhaps not even a representation of a living organism at all, making the objects exhibited even more uncanny; the fluidity of material yet stable nature of the pieces are like representations of an object in motion, yet frozen in time. The artist is “using the language of nature to create unnatural forms” challenging the viewer’s expectation of the use of material, manipulating it into “undulating, organic, otherworldly form[s]”, neither slick and on objects ready for flight, nor daintily soft and plumy on a pillow surface.

This connection of opposites allows us to think about how our perceptions of materiality and aesthetic influence our expectations of certain materials and objects.

-Anna Paluch

yearoftheglitch:

Tokyo
(Graphic Design, 2012)

By The Sound of Applause. Prints available.

nevver:

Once upon a time in the West, Tyler Carter

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one-handsome-devil:

So I was helping some friends shoot a PSA in the nursing department of our college and I had way too much fun with the uncanny training dummies. The JFK lookin’ one was my favorite, his name is Jeffrey.

tinyem:

nubbsgalore:

an alligator has a tapetum lucidum at the back of each eye, which reflects light back into the photoreceptor cells to make the most of low light, and causes its eyes to glow red. photos by larry lynch and david moynahan

Hauntingly beautiful.

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takaoka:

parallel————universe:

illustration for Businessweek’s Year Ahead Issue 2014

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architectural-review:

Informal Events / Wateredge // Sai Kung Fish Market Cantonese Opera House //

Linus Cheng