April, 2013
Laura Mulder’s “The Unreal Reality”
This stunningly beautiful, structural collection, entitled The Unreal Reality, was designed by Laura Mulder as her graduation project at the Art Academy of Utrecht in 2011. Modeled by Thiska van den Heuvel and Lara Aimee, photographed by Cor and Leonie Baauw of Local Androids, with hair styling by Jenny Kroese.
Tags: architectural fashion, avant-garde, avant-garde goth, black garments, conceptual fashion, dark romantic, fashion editorial, high fashion, textured
Thomas Devaux
Tags: (twists on) traditional art, black and white, black-and-white portraits, eerie, hauntingly beautiful, otherworldly photography, photomanipulation, religious imagery, surreal
Mika Aoki: Glass Viruses, Microorganisms, and Biota in the Modern World
Tags: alien beauty, bioart, biological/organic/alien, conceptual, fragility, glass, hauntingly beautiful, installation art, medical-themed, microbes, sculptures, strange beauty, syringes, transparent, weird sculptures
Cicadian Symmetries: The Art of Aubrey Learner
Aubrey Learner‘s incredibly realistic, detailed drawings are intriguing studies in precision and subtly disturbing grotesqueness. Reminiscent of naturalist illustrations, her imagery combines inorganic elements such as scissors, ribbons, corset lacing, and female undergarments, with insects, leeches, butterflies, snails, and worms. These cryptic, symbolic compositions have the abstruse mystery of installations, and evoke a jarring sense of repulsion and juxtaposition.
Tags: bugs, butterflies, insects, natural history, realism, realistic drawings, scissors
Ariana Page Russell: Art Via Skin
Ariana Page Russell has dermatographia, “a condition in which one’s immune system releases excessive amounts of histamine, causing capillaries to dilate and welts to appear (lasting about thirty minutes) when the hypersensitive skin’s surface is lightly scratched. This allows me to painlessly draw on my skin with just enough time to photograph the results. Even though I can direct this ephemeral response by drawing on it, the reaction is involuntary, much like the uncontrollable nature of a blush.”
Tags: bodily art, body art, dermatographia, skin, skin conditions
