By Adrián Villar Rojas, a most fascinating environmental sculpture, a to scale blue whale situated in Ushuaia, Ukraine. The subtle addition of the tree stumps to make it look like it is already being assimilated by nature, brilliant touch.

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Super bizarre pizza themed illustrations by Japanese artist Kimiaki Yaegashi. So weird, I love it.

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Hsiao Ron Cheng.

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Bug Memorials by Carmichael Collective

‘Bug Memorials’ is a project by Carmichael Collective. The tiny memorials are a requiem for all the bugs that get crushed under our fierce feet.

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“Crapestry” by Theo Humphries. Traditional tapestry templates and designs are modified into humorous and disturbing one of a kind pieces.

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I am a sculptor who chooses ceramics as my primary medium. My subject matter is personal narrative through the use of animal imagery. Like Aesop’s Fables, animals are an apt vehicle to express human truths and characteristics. Using familiar animals such as rabbits dogs, frogs and crab claws, I interpret them through the filter of my own experience. While the leaping off point for the imagery is personal, I believe that the personal is universal. Joy, suffering and points in between are experienced cross culturally and I attempt to express the universal in my art through visual metaphor.

Russell Wrankle
Toquerville, UT

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C Fausta Facciponte / Courtesy of Stephen Bulger Gallery

Here is Fausta Facciponte’s Doll Series.  Coming face to face with these large portraits, one notices dust, dirt, and filaments of hair–remnants left by the author to convey the arduous process she went upon to rescue and salvage the old children’s toys.  Thrift stores, garage sales, and online auctions were just a few of the places Facciponte found these relics of children’s past, long forgotten by their owners.  Through examining these objects, asking what their story is, where they come from, who owned them and who confided in them, the work creates an empathy within the viewer, adding to the experience the sense that the viewer themselves is likened to a material object.

C Fausta Facciponte / Courtesy of Stephen Bulger

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Zombie/Dinosaur by Mika.

Other works on saintejeanneconnection

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Delectables by Ed Bing Lee

Artist Ed Bing Lee has created food sculptures essentially from waxed linen, linen, cotton and raffia.

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The Girl with 7 Horses by Ulrika Kestere

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Marion Peck.

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Polly Morgan’s Still Birth is a series of preserved chicks, suspended by colored balloons kept with in bell jars.

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Kurt Perschke’s RedBall Project is so simple and so effective.

Artist’s Statement:

Through the RedBall Project I utilize my opportunity as an artist to be a catalyst for new encounters within the everyday. Through the magnetic, playful, and charismatic nature of the RedBall the work is able to access the imagination embedded in all of us. On the surface, the experience seems to be about the ball itself as an object, but the true power of the project is what it can create for those who experience it. It opens a doorway to imagine what if? As RedBall travels around the world people approach me on the street with excited suggestions about where to put it in their city. In that moment the person is not a spectator but a participant in the act of imagination. I have witnessed it across continents, diverse age spans, cultures, and languages, always issuing an invitation. That invitation to engage, to collectively imagine, is the true essence of the RedBall Project. The larger arc of the project is how each city responds to that invitation and, over time, what the developing story reveals about our individual and cultural imagination.

- Kurt Perschke

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I’ve been known to create a fake cake every once in a while (following Amy Sedaris’ recipe), but those are nothing compared to Scott Hove’s Cakeland. One day when I have my mansion I may commission him to create a cake room for me.

Cakeland is a series of sculptures and installations resembling perfect delicious cakes— wall mounted, hanging and standing— and walk-through cake environments complete with their own lighting.

Walter Potter (1835-1918) brought whimsy to taxidermy by anthropomorphizing his subjects in everyday (human) activities.

A bizarre collection of stuffed animals that was broken up and sold around the world seven years ago has been reassembled for a one-off exhibition. The eccentric works of Victorian taxidermist Walter Potter, in which stuffed animals mimic human life, were sold for more than £500,000 in 2003.

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