“Everything I do is an experiment. If the picture I make is good or not is of little importance in comparison to what I have learned. If the experiment ‘works’ I have the feeling of arrival, of completion, I am finished with the idea.”
Even the pedestals the birds sit upon are made from salvaged wood off-cuts.
Penique Productions creates their temporary art pieces using very little material, but the effect is jaw-dropping.
“Green Porno”, describes animal sexual behavior, through a one-woman show.
From carved chess pieces to giant icewalls to frozen furniture to ice castles, check out our roundup of glistening frozen water art.
Take a closer look though and you’ll find that the Buddha-like figure has an umbrella for an elbow, gold electronics for a necklace and a nipple made out of a bushel.
“In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it’s for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.” David Suzuki.
Their imaginative sculptures are made from a whole range of materials, framing waste in a new context that helps demonstrate how much of it we produce in our communities, and how, with a little imagination, trash can be reinterpreted into something inventive.
To make her collages, she uses all sorts of natural and floral materials including fish scales, egg shells, onions, split branches, feather, moss, pebbles, flax and paper.
Every year hundreds of farmers gather in rice fields to create massive images using the paddies as a canvas.
“My intent is to confront the viewers with the real and grotesque nature of violence, offering a context for reflecting about the vulnerability of our physical existences,”
I’m not a fan of wasting beer that could just as easily have been drunk. But if you’re going to do it, you may as well do it for a good cause.
