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Kevin Van Aelst
Ironic and poetic works by Kevin Van Aelst:
“My color photographs consist of common artifacts and scenes from everyday life, which have been rearranged, assembled, and constructed into various forms, patterns, and illustrations. The images aim to examine the distance between the ‘big picture’ and the ‘little things’ in life—the banalities of our daily lives, and the sublime notions of identity and existence.”
[via ilikethisart]
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Stefan Strumbel
Stefan Strumbel uses traditional motives that are associated with his origin, the Black Forest. On an abstract level, Strumbel deals with the paradigms of “home“ and simultaneously questions its concept.
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Indelicate Doilies
Sweetly colored coaster doilies topped with not-so-sweet messages. On Urban Outfitters…
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Forensic pillows
“Forensic means ‘for the courts’. Lost City delved into specific objects that are considered trace evidence at a crime scene. Fascinated by the different shapes, angles, hues, and distribution of blood spatter patterns, the scientific and gothic allure of strands of hair,the intriguing biometric techniques of fingerprinting and DNA analysis, we decided to translate and transform these somewhat macabre but intriguing objects into hand embroidered works of beauty on canvas pillows.”
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Jamie Campbell
“Jamie Campbell makes jokes only he finds funny, but he convinces you to laugh all the same.”
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