This great piece is from Helga Steppan, a Swedish artist whose new series she describes this way: “See Through is a series of twelve photographs. In which I audited all my personal belongings and divided them into a full spectrum of colour groupings.” See the photos. They're wonderful.
For tipping me off to Steppan's art and to the Queen Latifa video below, I am indebted to the marvelous Kara Elverson.
Yesterday I was in the car, listening to NPR. On the BBC News Hour, there was a really interesting piece about Willard Wigan, who makes what must be the tiniest sculptures in the world. They literally can fit inside the eye of a needle. Here is the BBC report. Fascinating. See the related links there for more. And here's something from last December on the BBC about Wigan.
Then, today, I happened across an internet item about a LEGO artist whose work is also quite amazing. See this.
Regular readers here know that I am a sucker for stop-motion animation that is really well done and artful. Here's something that fits into that category. (h/t to Bob Cesca, on whose blog I discovered this.) This is the first such piece of animation I've seen that uses knitwear as its medium. Lysanne Latulippe created over 700 individual wool designs to generate this animation. What an artist! And it is a wonderful narrative that takes us through Montreal -- past Mount Royal and the downtown skyline and up the side of the Olympic Stadium, weaving between the intimacy of this couple's togetherness and the greater experience of the city. It's innocent, twinged with melancholy.
The music is by Tricot Machine, a Canadian couple. The lyrics to the song "Les peaux de lièvres" are here. I'm not competent enough in French to give a good translation, but here's what I'm able to decipher, after the jump:
I urge you, again, to see the beautiful photography of Karin Rosenthal. Her Cape Cod landscapes are fantastic. But if you love the southwestern U.S., as I do, you'll find her landscapes from the Southwest even more compelling. And I, of course, am particularly partial to the female nudes! Take your pick. They're all beautiful.
Today's New York Times carried an interesting art review by Ken Johnson, assessing a Yale University art exhibit called "First Doubt: Optical Confusion in Modern Photography." Good stuff. Check out some of the artists. To my mind, the most intriguing and wonderful is the work of Karin Rosenthal. Superb.
