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sensationalizm:

Architectural Density in Hong Kong

With seven million people, Hong Kong is the 4th most densely populated places in the world. However, plain numbers never tell the full story. In his ‘Architecture of Density’ photo series, German photographer Michael Wolf explores the jaw-dropping urban landscapes of Hong Kong. He rids his photographs of any context, removing any sky or horizon line from the frame and flattening the space until it becomes a relentless abstraction of urban expansion, with no escape for the viewer’s eye. Infinite and haunting.

Editor’s Note: Co-signed.

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“Tearful” x

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rabbiting:

apparently there are people out there who don’t know beksinski??? thank the gods i am here to remedy that instead of going to bed like a normal person

nnf i love beksinski

these are the places only your dreams keep

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andreasmroberts:

Nicola Samori (b. 1977). Italian.

Neo-Baroque??

Nicola Samori is fucking incredible. He works out of Italy, and he’s managed to nail the style of the Old Masters: his exhibitions contain everything from beautiful Baroque saints to Flemish still lifes — all painted now, in the modern era, in his studio. And that would be amazing in and of itself, but his work is so much more than simple reproduction. See, once he’s finished with a painting, or once he’s adapted one that’s been previously created, he takes a scalpel to it, a spatula, or a square of sandpaper, and begins to peel it apart. He flays painted skin right off his subjects’ bones.

Sometimes the “destruction” of the images asks the audience to think about what, exactly, the painting communicates when it’s whole. Other times it adds a strange level of corporeality to religious works, or gives portraits a darkly spiritual dimention they never had before. 

He’s said in interviews that he views the layers of paint on the canvas as analogous to the muscle and tissue of the human body, and that by wearing it away, he changes the identity of the paintings themselves.

Dark and sometimes chilling as it is, I think his work is genuinely brilliant, and he’s one of my favorite living artists.

(Long story short, here’s his website, go check it out!)

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Gavin Worth makes his sculptures out of steel wire by bending them into freestanding line drawings. Watch a video of the process here.

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road-to-home:

“La Guadalupana,” A Queer Indigenous Studies final, concept, styling, model, Mar Sánchez, painting and photography, Josh White. March 2013.

takng the plunge and putting these on the internet, where things never come back to you. i would watermark them, but also, whatever.

just don’t remove my credits is all i ask.

this is the my most chicana art to date.

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farewell-kingdom:

Skeletons carved from common inanimate objects by Maskull Lasserre (via)

Okay that is sort of delightfully creepy and completely amazing.

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leslieseuffert:

Natsumi Hayashi

 ”A sweet-looking Japanese girl who, one day, decided to take self-portraits..of herself levitating. She can be spotted in and around Tokyo, equipped with her SLR and her self-timer. When she feels the moment strike, she presses the shutter button down and then, quite literally, “jumps” into place. What I love most about her shots is that they don’t feel forced. Natsumi has a way of making us feel as though she naturally levitates throughout life. When I asked her how others react to her jumping around Tokyo, here is a funny story that she shared. “One day, when I was jumping at a famous sightseeing spot in western Tokyo, workers at a souvenir shop were frightened by how I was jumping. They were whispering things like ‘Is the girl mentally ill’ and ‘Do we need to call the police?’ “So I stopped jumping and apologized to them by saying, ‘I am taking jumping photos for my wedding party’s slide show.’ Their faces turned bright red, and they said things like ‘Oh dear!’ and ‘Congratulations!’ and even ‘Keep jumping!’ 

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artmonia:

Portraits with Love Letters by Jamie Poole.

“This portraits are made using poetry and words from a book of letters wich my wife and me write to each other.”

Ach, too sweet! ^-^

So cool. I love the texture he gets from it too.

ruineshumaines:

Hesitate // Activate // Deviate by Alexa Meade & Sheila Vand.

Photographs of a portrait Alexa Meade painted on performance artist Sheila Vand’s body while submerged in a pool of milk.

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theartofanimation:

Lois van Baarle

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