Synesthesia Garden
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Here you will find paeans to all varieties of dark, surreal, odd, and provocative contemporary art, style, and creativity.

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  • Bevel Jewelry New Collection

    10.11.11

    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

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  • Midori Harima

    09.02.11

    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

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  • Image of the Day

    07.16.11


    Winter Is Coming by Anja Millen

    Tags: alien beauty, anja millen, antlers, otherworldly photography, photomanipulation, white, white hair

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  • New Realism: The Art of Korin Faught

    07.06.11

    Taking cues from classical art (she is a self-confessed devotee of the Dutch master Vermeer), Korin Faught paints beautiful, realistic, and surreal portraits of women, in white dresses and Dutch caps, often in groups or interactions of enigmatic/symbolic meaning; a striking blend of the modern and the traditional, a balance between a crisp and precise style, and an expressive and sharply imaginative quality. I love the whiteness contrasted with the touch of melancholy to the atmosphere and the vague sense of twisted foreboding.

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    Tags: (twists on) traditional art, classicism, femininity, korin faught, mystical, photorealism, puritanical, realism, religious imagery, religious symbolism, sexuality, symbolism, twins/doppelgangers/doubles, virtuoso, white

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  • Jana Brike’s “The Book of Taboo”

    05.23.11

    Jana Brike currently has a solo exhibit at ArtHatch in Escondido, California. Titled The Book of Taboo, this lush white-dominated, pink-tinged series focuses on prepubescent, androgynous girls and boys with milk-white skin and cherubic features, and portrays the theme of (yep, you guessed it) corrupted innocence. Lurid and twisted sexuality, eerie and sinister surreal imagery combined with the sweetness and purity of the diminutive figures, gambol and play in these portraits of children suspended somewhere between childhood and adolescence, between innocence and depraved malice. Jana Brike explains the influences behind these paintings here.

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    Tags: children, dollflesh, innocence/menace, jana brike, lolitaism, pop surrealism, sexuality, white

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  • Anouk Wipprecht: The Merging of Technology and Fashion

    03.27.11

    Anouk Wipprecht is a Dutch fashion designer who works in the emerging field of “fashionable technology,” defined by Sabine Seymour as “the intersection of fashion, design, science, and technology.” Anouk seeks to create a “higher state of connectivity between the body and our clothing,” a physical and psychological relationship wherein what we wear responds to us, and we are also affected by what we wear, producing something more than just the traditional function of coverture/adornment. What results is one-of-a-kind, architectural, avant-garde garments with bold silhouettes, vested with circuitry and a regalia of plastic tubes and the ability to respond in a unique and remarkable way to human bodies.


    Picture via Coilhouse


    The Birds, an installation piece inspired by the Hitchcock film

    Examples of Anouk Wipprecht’s “wearable tech” include Fragilis, a dress that eerily mimics the function of the human heart and veins through motion and lighting (similar to the Heartbeat Dress, which conversely uses sound, recording the heartbeat of the model and relaying it to the audience through speakers embedded in the dress):

    Daredroid, a dress that “combines pneumatic technology with open-source hardware and human temperament to provide you with a freshly made White Russian cocktail”:

    And Intimacy (a project headed by Daan Roosegaarde), a set of garments that become more or less transparent and opaque in relation to their proximity to each other:

    An interesting interview with Anouk can be read over on Fashioning Technology.

    Tags: anatomical-themed, anouk wipprecht, avant-garde, bioart, biomechanical, fashiontech, fragility, futuristic, high fashion, wearable art, weird science projects, white

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  • The Stunning Sculpture of Motohiko Odani

    03.06.11

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    Tags: conceptual, installation art, medical braces, realism, sculptures, textured, white

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  • Bandages and Trauma: The Art of Kwon Kyung Yup

    02.09.11

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    Tags: bandages, emotive, expressive, flowers, hauntingly beautiful, pastel, photorealism, teardrops, trauma, white

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  • Beautiful Image of the Day

    04.17.10


    About Frailty and Love by Sara Lazzeroni

    Tags: art nudes, flowers, truncated forms, white

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  • Snow White Princess

    04.13.10


    These are images I like from a fashion editorial in Vogue Italia (originally posted on Haute Macabre).

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    Tags: corset lacing, fashion editorial, white

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