Love & Hate

Written by Valentina on . Posted in art

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Love & Hate’ by Nifer Fahrion of NifNaks is a triptych of three full scale weapons rendered in wool felt:

“I spent hours upon hours stabbing the wool, watching as it compacted and distorted. Then I added more wool, continuing to stab and watch it form in unpredictable ways, and continued again… With such an intense focus with the intention of recreating these weapons realistically, I became intimately familiar with the objects. I was fully present in the experience of observing the subject of my gaze. Thus, these sculptures become only the documentation of my mindful meditation on them.”

[via Laughing Squid]

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Brick Heart

Written by Valentina on . Posted in art, stuff, toys

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Brick artist Nathan Sawaya is the autohr of this amazing anatomical heart:

“I created an anatomically correct human heart for the Rady Children’s Hospital of San Diego. A piece like this is a great tool to help doctors talk to young patients about their own hearts. Hopefully kids will relate to a heart built from a medium that they are familar with. It took me nearly 100 hours to create this heavy heart, weighing in at 35 pounds. The typical human heart weighs about 10 ounces, so this heart is a bit heavier. It also causes more heartache when dropped on one’s foot.”

[via lustik]