Topographic Tomes: More Carved Books by Guy Laramee
Sculptor Guy Laramee looks at the edges of paper bound in a book and sees infinite possibilities: hills, valleys, volcanoes and alien rock formations. The artist is known for carving books into ...
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Giant Paper Flowers Bloom Inside Abbey Church in France
As if the ornate Gothic architecture in the Abbey church of Saint-Riquier in France wasn't beautiful enough already, it was temporarily filled with over 100 intricate and graceful paper flowers. ...
The Shape of Sound: New Orleans Village Made of Music
In New Orleans, music seems to exist everywhere. The city itself is woven from the notes of generations of musicians, all leaving their mark on this historic and beloved town. But there is a ...
Olympic Disguise: Titanium Fish Screen Installation for London
The thousands of people who sweep through the streets of east London as they make their way to and from various Olympic events won't notice the less-than-aesthetically-pleasing rear end of the ...
Metal Heads: Sculptures Made of Movable Type & Hardware
Sculptor Dale Dunning has been casting the same genderless face in all different kinds of materials for over a decade - placing it on its side, cutting it into ribbons and surrounding it with ...
Salt Sculptures: 12 Stunning Artworks by Motoi Yamamoto
To many people around the world, salt is just a substance that makes food taste better. But to the Japanese, it's deeply symbolic, an indispensable part of death rituals that imparts purification ...
Welcome To Hell: 22 Grisly And Terrifying Sculptures
With birds chirping all over the place, and the sun shining across fields of flowers, Spring is in full bloom. What better time to have a little contrast by delving into the dark and grisly world ...
Incredibly Intricate 2.5 Ton Carved Marble Manhattan
Yukata Sone received his formal training as an architect, but soon discovered that his penchant for fine details went far beyond merely designing life-size buildings. He began working in marble, ...
Face to Face: 29 Explorations In Facial Art, Design & Imagery
Sculptors in ancient history are the only ones who ever had time to truly study the human form and create beautiful works of art out of it, right? Wrong. Modern sculptors and artists have been ...
Suspended Grass Figures Grow Green in Galleries
The figures seem to float on air, hanging in unnatural positions, their limbs dangling. Made of a compacted growing medium, these sculptures by Mathilde Roussel are planted with grass seeds and ...
