Eager Little Hands
Leather Winged Harness with Elk Bones
This lovely aerial harness from Bethany Moore-Garrison is made from leather, hawk wings, and elk bones.
To see more of Bethany Moore-Garrison’s work, check out her Website.
Tags: animals, bird wings, bones, harness, leather, steampunk, taxidermy, wearable art, witchy, woodland creatures
Bevel Jewelry New Collection
Take a look at these lovely images from the lookbook for Bevel‘s new collection of preternaturally beautiful jewelry.
Tags: avant-garde goth, bevel nyc, bones, fashion editorial, jewelry, mystical, spooky animal-themed jewelry, sterling-silver jewelry, white, witchy
“Black and Blue” by Emily Kaelin
Black and Blue is a sculpture piece by Emily Kaelin, resembling a disembodied clump of long black hair ethereally embedded with bright blue butterfly wings, also severed from their proper owners. It is made of synthetic hair, Morpho butterfly wings, and glitter.
Emily Kaelin is a young artist who constantly deals with repulsion vs. beauty, in installations, mixed-media art, and paintings, mimicking human organic materials that are generally thought to be disgusting, such as flesh, hair, blood, and bone, and creating pieces that are conflicting, visceral, and unlike anything else out there, pushing her art farther and into new territories.
She describes her own art in these words: “push and pull of appealing and repellent, comforting and upsetting, lovely and ugly; inability to look at or render self objectively; impulse and intuition and instinct; emotionality; flesh; hairiness”
Her art constantly intersects the descriptors of ugly, strangely beautiful, alluring, repulsive, bizarre, off-putting, interesting, intriguing, fleshy, raw, delicate, otherworldly, and original. It expresses agony incarnate in the body, in its materials of ink and parchment (blood and skin).
A few more examples of her work below:
Tags: anatomical-themed, bizarre, bodily art, emotive, experimental, expressive, fleshy, hair, installation art, sculptures, textured, visceral, weird sculptures
“About the Man Who Loved Fishing”: A Jewelry Collection by Kasia Piechocka
London-based jewelry designer Kasia Piechocka has come out with a sleek and modern collection named About the Man Who Loved Fishing. Revolving around the unusual, conventionally unglamorous theme of fishing and assorted equipment (fish-head rings, earrings inspired by fishing weights, fish-hook necklaces, a bracelet resembling a chain of delicate fish bones), this collection turns “unbeautiful” subject matter into a form of elegance and edgy yet spare chicness. Seamless and sharp, these sterling-silver pieces work well in a unisex capacity, and are perfect for those seeking something a bit different as a bold/subtle statement accessory. They are available for purchase from her Website.
Tags: animals, avant-garde, bones, conceptual fashion, hooks, jewelry, spooky animal-themed jewelry, unique rings
The Popovy Sisters’ “mod.” Collection
Tags: alien beauty, architectural fashion, avant-garde, bjds, collars, conceptual fashion, distorted bodies, dolls, edo-period japan, futuristic, hair, headdresses, historically inspired, hoopskirts, kabuki-inspired, otherworldly, red and white, samurai mask, white hair
Internal Forest: The Paper-Cutting Art of Elsa Mora
Elsa Mora is an amazing and endlessly creative paper-cutting artist. With just sharp knives and scissors, she crafts evocative, entangling scenes (perfect for framing in shadowboxes), vignettes, and storytelling images of incredible detail out of paper, resonant with fairytale whimsy and deep emotion.
Tags: anatomical-themed, animals, blood, bugs, children, elsa mora, exposed anatomy, fairy tales, innocence, miniature, nature, paper-cutting, papercraft, red and white, sinister arts and crafts, unique rings, woods
Roses and Thorns: The Art of Liza Corbett
Tags: animals, art shows, baroque, bird wings, branches, deer, dolls, fairy tales, flowers, flowers in hair, ghosts, greek mythology, hair, historically inspired, illustrations, intricate line drawings, jeremy hush, little red riding hood, liza corbett, macabre, nature, neo-victorian, red, roses, skulls, soft color, surreal, swan, victorian, wolves
Midori Harima
These are a few of Midori Harima’s installations, made with Xeroxed images from a variety of sources, including magazines, books, and the Internet, which she crafted by sculpting the printed media on hollow structures, to create this eerie, flat, “3Dvs.2D” effect.
Tags: deer, eerie, installation art, macabre, otherworldly, papercraft, sculptures, surreal, weird sculptures, white
Coe & Waito’s “Jellyfish”
Coe & Waito (Alissa Coe and Carly Waito), who specialize in ceramic art projects, created a beautiful and detailed installation, Jellyfish, first exhibited in the Come Up to My Room show in 2007.
Tags: animals, ceramics, creature, installation art, interior decoration, jellyfish, natural history, nature, realism, sculptures, weird sculptures
The Savage Idiot: The Art of Richard Stipl
Richard Stipl’s obscene, gory, and irreverent sculptures and installations are lifelike to the extreme, and revolve around subverted religious imagery and images of corrupted dignity. He also creates mixed media works, such as Pentagram (below).
Tags: bizarre, blood, death/religion/sex, distorted bodies, flour-white face, gory, installation art, realism, red and white, religious imagery, richard stipl, sculptures, unnaturally colored flesh, weird sculptures
