Curved Lenses Multiply Everyday Views of Paris in a New Mobile Installation by Vincent Leroy

   23 Mar 01:00:01   |  ThisIsColossal

Slow Lens is the newest piece from French artist Vincent Leroy, who often explores optics and light in his large-scale installation work. The piece is suspended from above, and a network of curved, translucent lenses distorts the viewer’s perspective. Displayed en plein air, the connected lenses slowly rotate and ofter multiplied visions of the surrounding environment. Leroy installed and documented Slow Lens in various locations around Paris, including in highway lanes that were vacant due to pollution-induced city traffic restrictions. More

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Watch Sliced Fruits and Vegetables Disappear Before Your Eyes in Vibrant Animations by Kevin Parry

   23 Mar 01:00:01   |  ThisIsColossal

Kevin Parry creates stop-motion animations that turn the quotidian task of slicing vegetables and fruit into a near psychedelic exploration of each food’s interiors. Through a common technique called strata-cut, the Toronto-based animator creates videos that slowly peel away the exteriors of peppers, avocados, and onions, revealing patterns we might not notice while preparing a simple stir-fry or stew. Although Parry is used to taking his time perfecting each frame, for this series he had to race against the clock to avoid the organic materials browning or losing their vivacious color. More

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The View From Down Under: ?Under-Cats? Celebrates Cats at a New Angle

   21 Mar 01:00:01   |  ThisIsColossal

Felines at the International Cat Show in Kaunas, Lithuania were already ready for their closeup, but they might not have been expecting these glass-bottomed glamour shots. Photographer Andrius Burba began the shooting at this unique angle in 2015 with cats on a black background. In the intervening years he has documented dogs, rabbits, bicycles, and even horses. The most recent iteration swaps out the black backdrops for bright colors. Burba explains to Colossal that he places each subject on a glass surface (though we’d hazard a guess the horses stood on a sturdier material) and shoots from below, with the backdrop placed above the animal. More

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Europe?s First Underwater Restaurant Doubles as a Marine Research Center

   21 Mar 01:00:01   |  ThisIsColossal

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Domesticated Root Systems by Diana Scherer Form Twisting and Repetitive Patterns in Patches of Earth

   20 Mar 01:00:01   |  ThisIsColossal

Amsterdam-based artist Diana Scherer investigates the desire for humans to control nature through her series Exercises in Root System Domestication. The project combines design, craft, and science to manipulate plants’ subterranean systems into forming mesmerizing interlocking patterns that are unlike what is found organically. To “train” the roots to grow in such complex patterns, Scherer develops underground geometric templates that the roots grow along and merge with as they grow.
This intelligent behavior of plants below ground, away from humanity’s watchful eye, is another inspiration for Scherer’s work. More

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Monochrome Monsters Squeeze into a Former Factory in a New Monumental Exhibition by Phlegm

   20 Mar 01:00:01   |  ThisIsColossal

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Swirling Three-Dimensional Script by Designer Alia Bright

   19 Mar 01:00:01   |  ThisIsColossal

Portland-based designer Alia Bright creates interlocking text with bright gradient patterns that combine her background in illustration, fine art, and graphic design. The looping letters are formed from paper and glue, and are created with several different weights and stocks to add a visual texture to the graphic presentation. For Bright, the trick to a successful work is finding the sweet spot where the three-dimensional aspect of the paper highlights the lettering, and vice versa. More

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A Geometric Light Projection by Joanie Lemercier Invites Viewers to Take a Trip Through the Stars

   19 Mar 01:00:01   |  ThisIsColossal

Constellations is a light-based audio-visual installation by Joanie Lemercier that explores the great expanse of our universe through the presentation of morphing geometric shapes and bright glowing orbs. The three-dimensional light work is projected onto water, which gives it a rippling, holographic effect, further intensified by an electronic soundscape produced by Paul Jebanasam. “It?s an exploration of the stars, constellations and the vastness of the cosmos, suggesting the beauty of geometry, simple and complex structures of the universe,” explains Lemercier. More

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Ceramic Dishes Drawn as Rippling Pools of Culture by Brendan Lee Satish Tang

   18 Mar 01:00:01   |  ThisIsColossal

For his “Swimmers” print series, artist Brendan Lee Satish Tang transformed traditional blue and white ceramic dishware patterns into a symbol for culture: the complex, learned, and shared pool that surrounds us all. Each intricately drawn work features two swimmers (parental figures and children, siblings, and peers) who are seemingly unaffected as they attempt to navigate the rippling waters together.
Born in Ireland to Trinidadian parents, Tang received a formal art education in the United States and in Canada, where he is a naturalized citizen. More

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