inspiration: August 2010

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Alex S. MacLean, Aerial Photographer

In her site-specific installation works, Japanese-born, Berlin-based artist Chiharu Shiota spins cocoon-like webs and builds gallery-sized labyrinths composed of window frames to create her own form of artistic architecture. Both visually striking and physically imposing, Shiota’s artworks produce – what is described in a recent exhibition catalogue as – “a compelling tension of sublime intimacy and haunting imprisonment.” Her use of the frames, in particular, plays with ideas of openness and enclosure, whereby the windows represent uncrossable boundaries and borders. Similarly, the black threads that produce thousands of small intersections appear to symbolise spatial impenetrability and chaos. These maze-like and somewhat inaccessible spatial compositions seemingly draw on the tangled constructions of the mindscape and move psychological anxieties from the interior to the exterior.

Shiota’s latest work can currently be viewed until 30 September 2010 at the Museum on the Seam in Jerusalem, Israel where her art is part of a group exhibition entitled, “HomeLessHome.”

Proust Geometrica Chair

taken from kitsen noir

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Helen Musselwhite Papercraft Dioramas

With just a quick glance at her work, papercraft artist Helen Musselwhite is clearly a passionate perfectionist. Her papercraft dioramas spare no mistake, no miscalculation and no poor material. Mrs. Musselwhite’s work represents the spirit of nature in a paper diorama, with the animal world alive and busy amidst her art. taken form thecoolist