Posts Tagged ‘ sculpture ’

Shaping Nature

The Land Art of Sylvain Meyer Some nice”land art” by Sylvain Meyer, similar in nature (ha!) to Andy Goldsworthy’s work. More on Goldsworthy, the grandfather of land art, soon. Via Colossal: Wonderful land art installations by French artist Sylvain Meyer who modifies wooded areas and landscapes to create various impermanent patterns, sculptures, and textures. Everything [ READ MORE ]

Fleeting Light Sculpture

Some really nice examples of light installation art. Via Colossal: Landscape Light Sculptures Artist Barry Underwood photographs wonderfully mysterious light installations that he installs on-site in forests, mountainsides, or near lakes and rivers. Via his artist statement: By reading the landscape and altering the vista through lights and photographic effects, I transform everyday scenes into [ READ MORE ]

Carl Jara’s Impressive Sand Sculptures

I spent the New Year’s weekend on the Oregon coast with friends, and one of my favorite memories of the weekend was a speed sand castle building competition. We had four minutes apiece, and they were glorious. But not quite like this. Colossal has a write up of serious artist Carl Jara and his jaw-dropping [ READ MORE ]

Texture

Via Colossal: Chicago-based artist Dolan Geiman has some cool wooden constructions, cutouts with excellent use of color and texture. Geiman said he travels quite a bit around the U.S. and picks up objects wherever he goes and uses them in his work.  Call them inlaid sculptures or 3D silhouettes, they’re just plain cool[ READ MORE ]

Beautiful Home

The NY Times has an ongoing “Great Homes and Destinations” feature, and today’s home was from Berlin. A beautifully modern, restored space that served as a laundry for 100 years. I’ve known that Germans have a great eye for design, but perhaps not as much for whimsy or color.  But this house scores on a [ READ MORE ]

Raising Awareness, block by block

A very cool and creative campaign by the Philadelphia Zoo to raise awareness. Nicely done. via Treehugger: With the precarious state of ecosystems throughout the world today, it is difficult to know for certain which threatened species will continue to be around for future generations–and which will have gone the way of the Dodo. But as sobering [ READ MORE ]

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