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Chinese product designer Daizi Zheng created a range of healthy snacks packaged to look like drugs and junk food in order to encourage people to rethink their relationship between health and diet. The project features cigarette carrot sticks, blueberries in a pill blister pack and celery french fries. It’s a though provoking concept that deserves merit. via
Canadian artist Ellen Jewett (previously featured here) recently completed a new series of her surrealist natural history sculptures that effortlessly combine animals, plants, and sometimes mechanical elements to create entirely new otherworldly creatures. They’re dreamy chimera made of multiple species that should be impossible, but look lifelike, perfectly balanced, and equally at ease with their floral and faunal elements.
“By focusing on negative spaces within the animals’ bodies, Jewett strips away the weight of her objects, a quality that is usually inextricably linked to the medium of sculpture. She constructs her ceramic pieces using an additive technique, beginning with the innermost parts of the sculptures and layering outward. As periphery components of the animals’ surroundings are added to the piece, a narrative begins to form. These additional pieces Jewett describes as being beautiful, grotesque, or fantastical and add to the object’s exploration of domestication, death, growth, visibility, and wildness.”
As always Jewett takes great care to only use materials that are non-toxic and, whenever possible, locally-sourced as well.
Follow Ellen Jewett on Facebook or Instagram to keep up with her latest work. Some of her new pieces are currently available for purchase via eBay and prints of her sculptures are available via her website.
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100,000 Illuminated Suspended Balloons Form a Cloud Inside Covent Garden by Charles Pétillion
French artist and photographer Charles Pétillion produced a stunning installation composed of 100,000 illuminated balloons, which resemble a cumulus cloud inside London’s Covent Garden. The project, titled Heartbeat is a piece part of the upcoming London Design Festival, which follows Pétillion’s signature style of the use of a balloon as an artistic tool. As his first public and largest piece, Heartbeat extends from the South Hall ceiling to the Market Building. The presence of the balloons create a magical and ethereal environment out of a surreal dream.
The Canadian Boreal Forest is one of the biggest forests and wetland ecosystems which are still left on the face of the earth (a Boreal Forests are also known as ”Taiga”). The Canadian Boreal Forest has a very large populations of wolves, grizzly bears, and woodland caribou. The Canadian Boreal Forest contains about 1.5 million lakes which are 80% earth’s fresh water (excluding frozen areas) also some of Canada’s largest lakes can be found there. In Alberta, around 90% of cutlines (almost a decade later) have not yet regrown and mark the earth as man made scars(Cutlines are narrow and linear features created as a part of geophysical surveys). Instead cutlines accumulate water and become small canals.
reasons i should be your friend:
- my hands are soft i think because people tell me
- i probably have a soft face too
- i am willing to play with your hair platonically
- whenever i eat french fries you can have some
- YOU DONT EVEN NEED TO ASK YOU CAN JUST TAKE A FRENCH FRY OR TWO
- not all the french fries though
This always makes me giggle a little. :3
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