Art

April 25, 2012

Cutting a Feathery Cascade of Paper

Japanese artist Sachiko Abe sits atop a building in a white gown, cutting countless sheets of A4 paper into thin, wispy strips. The performance piece known as Cut Paper is both calming and mystifying. Abe sits for hours on end meticulously shredding paper whose cut feathery strands measure a mere 0.5mm in width.

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April 23, 2012

Street Art Symbolizing Mexico’s Strong Family Bonds

Street artist Liqen was invited by the “Collectivo Tomate” to paint a mural in Xanenetla, a neighborhood with lots of rich history in the Mexican city of Puebla. As corn is a staple food in this country, he wanted to express the idea of how strong the family is there, making each grain a person or animal as a symbolic unit of a set.

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April 18, 2012

Kinetic String Sculpture Visualizes Sound

We can hear sound but how does one visually represent it? Artist Daniel Palacios takes a go at visualizing noise with his kinetic sculpture called Waves that consists of a long, sturdy string of rope attached to a turbine on each end. The interactive structure responds to movement in both a visual and an audible manner.

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April 18, 2012

Tiny Images Combine to Make One Big Portrait

Every person has strengths, flaws, quirks, tendencies, and a variety of life experiences that collectively determine his or her personality. In thinking about this concept, Zurich-based photographer Anna Halm Schudel was inspired to create this collection of portraits–a series of large-format images that are composed of thousands and thousands of tiny images, each only one square centimeter wide.

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