Anna-Wili Highfield creates beautiful sculptures with paper that she paints, tears up and puts back together into beautiful animals, mostly birds-in-flight. There is something strangely alluring about powerful birds of prey made from delicate hand-sewn paper that really makes you think about nature at large.
Should you find yourself in Amsterdam in the coming months, make sure to stop by the Foam_Fotografiemuseum for Pretty Much Everything- Photographs 1985 – 2010, an epic retrospective of the last 25 years of photographers Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin’s works. More than 300 works will be on display, including advertisement, portraits and their own photography. It’s sure to be a memorable experience.
(And keep your fingers crossed that they bring the exhibit to NYC afterwards!)
Photographer Cameron Krone and artist David Goodman have collaborated in a body of work that boldly mixes fashion photography with mixed media with a beautiful final product. The last image in particular is one of my favorites as it seems to capture the moment the model has painted the brushtrokes from “the other side” of the lens.
“LucyandBart is a collaboration between Lucy McRae and Bart Hess described as an instinctual stalking of fashion, architecture, performance and the body. They share a fascination with genetic manipulation and beauty expression. Unconsciously their work touches upon these themes, however it is not their intention to communicate this. They work in a primitive and limitless way creating future human shapes, blindly discovering low – tech prosthetic ways for human enhancement.. ”
The most awesome thing about their work is their use of common everyday materials. Balloons, folded paper and glue and even soap suds. They are inviting us to look at the possibilities of pure human imagination and creativity from an almost child-like point of view.
Check out more of their work at LucyandBart.com.
And if you get inspired and decide to get creative, send us your shots!