Browsing through Aaron’s collection feels like I’m flipping through the archival records of rare flora in the Natural History Musuem in London. The infinite black background constrains the perception of depth to the singular stem. Each flower is captured on a flatbed scanner designed for photographs in a technique called ‘scanography’ thus making Aaron a […]
A polymath has little to do with math…and a whole lot to do with being accomplished in multiple creative areas. The HC Turk fits the polymath descriptor on many levels. Let’s explore. @TheHCTurk H.C. Turk – visual artist, sound artist, and writer The first collection I discovered is one still untouched by a sale, that […]
Indigo and cobalt blues define Riley’s collections across OpenSea, Foundation and OBJKT.com. Empty streets dimly lit and midnight skies convey a sense of calm in roaming when the city sleeps. “Photography for me is partly about portraying the mystery and essence of beauty. Subjectivity, impactful thought, and feeling is everywhere and I want you to […]
The Rubiks Cube was invented by Ernő Rubik and within it’s 26 small cubes, lies 43 quintillion possible combinations. The 1980’s brought the Rubik’s Cube into pop culture…. with many of us growing up sliding side into side to get to the coveted six matching sides of colors. “Inspiration has always been the impetus, and […]
Dangerous. Very dangerous. Guy Fawkes night celebrates a guy back in 1605 who was seriously against the establishment. While the sentiment of Guy Fawke’s is lost on todays annual celebration, it still gets celebrated by letting off fireworks. Humans love fire so it is with some serendipity that I discovered Mathieu Young’s work on Guw […]
ThinSlicePhoto – Visual artist – Cinema, Photo, Virtual.Playing with light focusses us to understand what’s being said in an image. A restrained colour palette is a big part of the work of @thinslicephoto. “Thin-slicing is the ability to find patterns based only on ‘thin slices’, or narrow windows, of experience. This is a governing ideal […]
Once you see something you thought was familiar in an entire new light, there’s no going back. Computers can see better than humans and armed with a monotone infrared wavelength, the results reveal a more of the unseen world around us. Trent North – Photographer Photographic Visual Artist ~ Travel // Infrared // URBEX // […]
500 Ladies is an epic project dreamed up by FirstLady to hand make 500 Ladies. Each was handcrafted into an actual miniature lady complete with flowing dresses and manufactured heads. I remember as a child selling a hand knitted doll I made for $1. That was a magic moment. But NFT’s is a different story […]
Jan Erik Waider – Visual artist and fine art photographer based in Hamburg — Atmospheric and abstract landscapes of the North. Wars begin with a flash of light; the very antithesis of nature, yet war is the first felt nerve pinched when viewing the Luminous Signals series of Jan Erik Waider. “It can be anything […]
Artists and artworks get discovered…and forgotten and sometimes rediscovered again. Today’s MintFace features an artist and artwork and a sale with the discovery theme. MintFace Artist Feature – Rachel Creasey Rachel is an artist with New Zealand origins who shifted to London to become Fine Art trained at the Wimbledon School of Art in London. […]