Pixel art?
Artist Shawn Smith is playing with your senses and changing the perspective of the onlooker. At first glance these sculptures look like pixelated contemporary art pieces, straight from the media art category, while in fact these are 3D sculptures build up out of wood blocks…
via Mixed Grill
http://www.mixedgrill.nl/2013/03/14/dieren-gemaakt-van-houten-pixels/
Eyes as Big as Plates…
Karoline Hjorth & Riita Ikonen had released the third chapter of their Eyes as Big as Plates series. The first part of this project was produced “in collaboration with local senior heroes, sailors, retired agronomes and 90-year old parachuters”, all from Riitta’s hometown of Pohjois-Karjala.
Focusing on the wonderful heritage of this small town, “Eyes as Big as Plates presents Pohjois-Karjala seniors through references of familiar characters and protagonists of Finnish folklore, infused with the participating local seniors’ own stories and personal relationship to folklore, myths and imagination.
via It’s Nice That
On view at The Intercourse, Redhook, Brooklyn from March 22nd onwards!
