Posts by Emma Taggart

Emma Taggart

Emma Taggart is a Staff Writer at My Modern Met. Originally from Northern Ireland, she is an artist now based in Berlin. After graduating with a BA in Fashion and Textile Design in 2013, Emma decided to combine her love of art with her passion for writing. Emma has contributed to various art and culture publications, with an aim to promote and share the work of inspiring modern creatives. While she writes every day, she’s also devoted to her own creative outlet—Emma hand-draws illustrations and is currently learning 2D animation.
Sculpture
June 10, 2019

Spinning Kinetic Sculptures Inspired by Fibonacci Sequence Help Reduce Stress

Inspired by the mathematical Fibonacci Sequence, London-born artist Ivan Black created an interactive kinetic sculpture called Square Wave that creates mesmerizing optical illusions when it spins. The Fibonacci formula is often referred to as “nature's secret code,” and is said to command the form of every living thing. Black’s kinetic toy cleverly combines natural forms with the mathematical formula to create a seamlessly integrated mechanism.

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Food Art
June 6, 2019

Artist Brilliantly Cuts and Arranges Food into Perplexing Compositions

Of all the places to find artistic inspiration, Japanese art director Yuni Yoshida finds it in her kitchen fruit bowl. She creates surreal food compositions in which apples, oranges, bananas, and other everyday ingredients appear as though they’ve been digitally pixelated and spliced together. Despite the digitized and Photoshopped look, every edible work of art is, in fact, impressively and meticulously crafted by hand.

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Art
May 27, 2019

Artist Transforms Everyday Objects into Poetically Humorous Works of Art

Amsterdam-based artist Bas van Wieringen takes ordinary objects and strips them of their core meanings to create surreal, thought-provoking sculptures. For his series, Everything is Something, Nothing is Something too, he cleverly distorts reality by turning mundane items—such as plug sockets, spirit levels, pencils, and nails—into intriguing works of art. “A paradox shows reality in its most pure form. It loosens what is stuck.

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