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Liu Bolin

Chinese artist Liu Bolin camouflages himself into various surroundings with paint...an ingenious way to play hide and seek!

Liu Bolin

Sunday Tune

JH Engström

All images by JH Engström and taken mostly from the book Trying To Dance.

I’m always looking for presence.
Whenever I try, my doubts get unmasked.
Easier then to stick with absence.
I’m not trying to prove anything.
I don't have that many memories yet.

- JH Engström, 2004

Art of Block Printing

 

 I found this little gem on honestlywtf. The film was produced by West Elm after meeting hand-block printing artisans on a recent trip to northern India’s Rajasthan. The process is so intricate and beautiful...I'm itching to have a go!

Hotel door hangers

I'm a bit of a hoarder and collections of odd things always catch my attention. I think these door hangers, seen together, are strangely beautiful. To find out more about the collection and collector click here

American Apparel: Everything you do has already been done, minus the grotty.

Images from Esprit–The Making of an Image by Helie Robertson, 1985.

Found here

Lists

Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and Other Artists' Enumerations from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art. 

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Alela Diane

Sheila Hicks

All work by Sheila Hicks.

Let's be friends...

  
I just gathered some materials for a good DIY friendship bracelet and pom pom making session this weekend...yes, i really am that cool...my inspiration comes from honestlywtf and you can get friendship bracelet instructions here.

Hubert Duprat

Hubet Duprat's aquatic caddis fly larvae, with cases incorporating gold, opal, and turquoise, among other materials. Photos Jean-Luc Fournier. Courtesy Art:concept, Paris, and Zero Gallery, Milan. Found here.

The magazine room in the library at college is one of my favourite places to waste time...this is what i came across in Cabinet Magazine recently.

"The images above illustrate the results of an unusual artistic collaboration between the French artist Hubert Duprat and a group of caddis fly larvae. A small winged insect belonging to the order Trichoptera and closely related to the butterfly, caddis flies live near streams and ponds and produce aquatic larvae that protect their developing bodies by manufacturing shea­ths, or cases, spun from silk and incorporating substances—grains of sand, particles of mineral or plant material, bits of fish bone or crustacean shell—readily available in their benthic ecosystem. The larvae are remarkably adaptable: if other suitable materials are introduced into their environment, they will often incorporate those as well."

I think the larvae fly have a good eye for jewellery design...you can see them at work here.

"I am convinced that most people do not grow up… We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as Magnolias."

 - Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

The image belongs to the very talented Miss V 

Sunday Tune

Tunnock's

These tasty Tunnock's treat inspired hand-screen printed cushions are BRILLIANT. I am quiet partial to a teacake and have decided I absolutely need to have the cushions on my sofa. Well done Nikki  McWilliams...i wish I'd thought of this!

For sale here

El Anatsui

In The Cloth series El Anatsui pursues the themes of memory and loss in his sculpture, especially the damage wrought by the colonial period and traumatic post-colonial aftermath. He uses cloth as a metaphor for both the fragility and the dynamism and strength of tradition. Since 1999 Anatsui has woven the debris of daily life and consumerist excess into glittering, monumental wall sculptures. I think they are beautiful.