Virginia Overton, “Untitled (Mirrors for Randall’s Island)” 2012 (from Hyperallergic)
Imagine walking through a forest and seeing just a glimpse of these awesome invisible figures! They’re the creative work of artist Rob Mulholland, who makes these sculptures out of mirrored Perspex (or acrylic glass). It has been called the Predator effect after the 1987 film where an alien life form seamlessly blends into its background. Mulholland has previously installed these chameleon-like figures in the woods around Alloa, Loch Ard and the David Marshall Lodge in Scotland.
Mulholland told BBC Scotland that the key to the effect was creating a distorted reflection. “It alters reality, one moment you see them and the next moment they blend in. There’s an ambiguity to it - it doesn’t answer all the questions.”
[via My Modern Metropolis]
(img) Rosy Keyser, “Eve’s First Confusion Between Penises and Snakes” (2012), detail; string, sawdust, wood, enamel, dye and snakeskin
Paige Bradley created one of the most striking sculptures I’ve seen in recent times. Her masterpiece, entitled Expansion, is a beautiful woman seeking inner piece but fractured and bleeding with light. “From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a container already built for us to fit inside: a social security number, a gender, a race, a profession,” says Bradley. “I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in than what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies?”
An Artist Goes Undercover at a JC Penney Portrait Studio
Studio portraits don’t document an event; the making of the photograph is the event. In order to create a series titled Free Sitting, artist Nora Herting got a job as a trade photographer at a portrait studio in a JC Penney department store in Ohio.
Lovely piece, I loved reading Herting’s log of the minutiae of her job. I wish I had been able to do something like this when I worked at Target, but I never could think of a way to make working in the stock room into critical art successfully.
