Food Art
June 29, 2021

Talented Pastry Chef Sculpts Sugar Flowers That Look Just Like Real Blooms

These flowers might look as though they’ve just been picked from a beautiful garden, but they’re actually edible cake decorations. Pastry chef Alexandria Murray (of Finespun Cakes) is an expert at sculpting incredibly realistic sugar flowers that beautifully adorn her multi-tier wedding cakes. Murray discovered sugar flowers when she was 19 years old, during a year off from art school.

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Embroidery
June 28, 2021

Embroidered Insects With 3D Wings Look Like They Could Fly Right Off the Fabric

With their delicate forms and iridescent colors, insects make the perfect subjects for arts and crafts projects. Embroidery artist Megan Zaniewski is one creative who’s celebrating the beauty of bugs. She creates handmade embroidery designs with three-dimensional wings. Zaniewski uses the stumpwork embroidery technique when she hand-crafts her designs. This involves stitching over padding, wiring, and other elements to create 3D textile designs that are raised up from the fabric.

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Watercolor Painting
June 26, 2021

Artist Transforms Animals Into Botanical Gardens in Colorful Watercolor Paintings

All animals enjoy a beautiful day outside. Well, Japanese artist Hiroki Takeda captures the beauty of this relationship in his series of verdant watercolor paintings. Using a vibrant color palette of pinks and reds, he designs animals that contain a secret garden of blossoms and grass. These botanical-inspired paintings feature charismatic cats and dogs, hamsters, birds, lizards, and more.

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Science
June 25, 2021

Who Was Pierre de Fermat? The Mathematician Who Left Behind a Mysterious “Last Theorem”

The great scientific minds of the Renaissance and Enlightenment often made contributions across myriad fields. Pierre de Fermat was no exception. During his lifetime in the 17th century, he made his mark upon optics, probability, analytic geometry, and even laid the some of the foundations for calculus (which Isaac Newton would later build on). His work has been appreciated and studied for centuries since his death in 1665.

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My Modern Met

Celebrating creativity and promoting a positive culture by spotlighting the best sides of humanity—from the lighthearted and fun to the thought-provoking and enlightening.