Get lost in time and space in the dream library.

Stunning B&W photography by Andrea Pelati.

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Seen here are three of his artworks of his ‘Phytoborgs’ and ‘Plantimals’ from his Living Machine series.

“Phyto Ost 3” is a quasi-surrealistic rendering of three tree-like forms growing out of an arid dried-mud playa.  The trees have orb-like crowns composed of filamentous boney cubes, hence the name Phyto Ost or Bone Plant.  The cube-like shape of the bones might indicate that they have an unnatural origin. These trees might be alive or they might be only skeletons of wood and bone, the last traces of life on an aging planet. The drawing was done by hand, requiring about 6 weeks of drawing time.

An Osteoborg is a sort of bone-robot. This one has been evolving for a very long time, and has no memory of its origin. It is integrated into its environment and is perhaps gestating new copies of itself as nodules on its legs. The graphite drawing Phyto Ost 1, 2017, depicts a non-anthropomorphic organism situated in a stark landscape. “Phyto Ost” means “plant bone”.

The graphite drawing “Plantimal 2” explores themes of mimetic evolution, Lamarckian evolution and self-construction.  The central focus of the work, a large organic spheroid creature, is a mainly biological entity.  This creature has both plant-like and animal-like components, hence the name Plantimal.  Exploring the theme of mimetic evolution, this plantimal might be in the process of taking on the form of a smaller more machine-like creature which it is carrying.  This creature might also be considered a species of Zooborg, i.e. a machine-animal hybrid. The background is taken largely from a view of low mountains north of Interstate 8 near the Arizona-California border.

You can visit his website and Facebook page to see more of his artworks.

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Reborn From The Surreal ‘Alone Series’ by Osvaldo González

The pandemic has been a difficult experience for many, and while we are all learning to adapt to the new normal, it’s important that we don’t lose our sense of self.

Reborn, the first artwork of the Alone Series, by Osvaldo González—a self-taught artist based in Hollywood, Florida—is an exploration of emotions feelings and inner discovery after pandemic times. Osvaldo’s creations are both imaginative and fantastical, often illustrating strange dreamlike figurations.

You can visit his website to see his surreal artworks.

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This installation is an anti-memorial for the Partition of India in 1947– a very traumatic event that displaced almost 20 million people. The ethnic violence that ensued in the wake of the partition, resulted in around 2 million deaths and 300,000 women being abducted and raped.

It showcases the counter-memory of the Partition that is elided from the popular memory culture that prevents the acknowledgment of the sexual violence and the silenced stories of defiled women jumping into the village well to commit suicide and save the family honor.

The Silent Waters anti-memorial seeks to memorialize the fatigued, brutalized, and defiled bodies of the refugees and migrants of partitions of 1947 and 1971. Silent Waters deploys twice-life-sized, feet to function as an anti-memorial to reveal the counter-memories buried in the collective narratives of trauma, in the partitions of 1947 and 1971.

There are three component parts to the Silent Waters anti-memorial:

1. 101 FEET

This site-specific installation is comprised of 101 larger-than-life-scale ceramic feet. The feet are hollow and glazed jet black inside and out. Feet are a particularly androgynous fragment of the human body and here they depict the mass displacement of people in 1947 and 1971 and also acknowledge both the male and female body as sites of sexual violence.

​Why 101 feet?

In India, it is considered auspicious to make offerings of money in the amounts of 11, 21, 51, 101, 501 and so on in temples. Therefore, 101 feet is a symbolic number to make a memorial offering to the men and women who were brutalized in the Partition riots.

2. WATER AND SALT

Water has a ritualistic and ceremonial role in the funerary rites of Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh communities. The empty ceramic feet filled with saltwater function as a surrogate for the absent, defiled bodies.

The feet are filled with saltwater, and as the water evaporates it creates a residue of crystallized salt inside the feet. The presence of water in this anti-memorial is poetic – by taking the shape of the feet, and filling the space in the hollow feet, it transforms the feet into containers of memory.

3. SOUNDSCAPE

​A minimalist soundscape accompanies this installation and comprises of the sounds of rain, running feet, and a body falling into the water, presumably a well. This soundscape plays in a loop in the space of the installation.

Title

The title of this anti-memorial makes an intertextual reference to the movie, Khamosh Paani (Silent Waters) (Sumar 2003). Hushed stories of defiled women jumping into the village well to commit suicide and save the family honor have become a cultural trope in the collective memory of the Partition. A poignant movie, “Khamosh Paani (Silent Waters),” deploys this trope in a nuanced and sensitive manner.

The Artist

Pritika Chowdhry is a socio-political, activist artist. She makes art about traumatic geopolitical events, from a counter-memory perspective. Her large-scale sculptures and site-sensitive installations reference the body to memorialize unbearable and difficult memories.

She seeks to connect seemingly disparate geopolitical contexts and believes that it is important to bring bridges into being. Counter-memories of communities and nations provide the viscera with which she builds these bridges in her work.

You can find more more artworks by Pritika Chowdhry on her website |Instagram | Tumblr.

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The name of the mural is Love For Nature. It’s about a mixed and often man’s exploitative treatment of the environment.

When the whole world stands on the threshold of global ecological catastrophes, a lot of people haven’t realized yet that the future of our planet depends on the actions of every single person.

It’s impossible to stop all harmful factories at once, but to make the first step towards a clean Earth is not difficult and within everybody’s power just by taking the trash away after recreation in nature.

The area of the mural is 630 m2, and it’s 50 meters high. Vitaly Tsarenkov aka SY worked with two assistants, and it took them 16 days to complete the mural.

Check out more images of the stunning mural, below.

I’m loving these vintage-style baseball trading card illustrations inspired by the ‘Team Captain America Vs Team Iron Man’ fight, which had Marvel fans taking sides. The illustrations were drawn by Petite Madame, an artist based in Paris, France.

Here’s ‘Team Iron Man’ for your viewing pleasure.

“We created these moving mosaic hexagons as an homage to nature, evocative of honeycombs and snowflakes, the moving discs change color throughout the day or season, reflecting their surroundings in soothing shades of grey-blue.”

Hannah & Nemo create textile-like interactive mosaic assemblages from common materials – wood, nails, and discarded aluminum cans. Utilizing low-tech tools such as hole-punchers and hammers, the couple transforms common beverage cans into reflective, multi-colored, flickering tapestries that seem to move of their own accord.

Hannah & Nemo’s use of aluminum cans correlates with their compulsion to recycle and conserve in every aspect of their life, but has evolved into a representation of the conflict between consumerism and environmentalism, depicting what is essentially a time capsule of contemporary graphic design. By utilizing hundreds of tiny fragmented details from aluminum can graphics, the couple hopes to give their audience an appreciation for the fleeting beauty of the everyday mundane that might otherwise be lost to history.

Residents of the Texas Hill Country, the couple have been making art since 2004. Although not formally trained in art, Hannah & Nemo have been influenced by their study of architecture, incorporating elements of design theory such as color, pattern, space, texture, repetition, and movement to articulate their aesthetic concept through traditional construction techniques.

Visit their website to learn more about their artworks.

Kestin Cornwall is a Toronto-based contemporary art artist.

He says:

In the 21st century, everything is affected by digital media and the Internet. Most works of art created today will be seen on digital devices more times than in person. I make art to encourage interactions―physically and digitally.

I critically chart current political, social, and economic landscapes with compositions brimming with references to media, popular culture, music, and art history.

My work aims to add beauty to the world while invoking the unending social responsibility to capture thought.

You can learn more about the artist by visiting his website, or by following him on his Instagram.