Designed for Leisure, Sarah Ross? ?Archisuits? Question the Inhospitable Environments of American Cities

   06 Nov 19:00:23  |  ThisIsColossal

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Undulating Volumes of Rattan Wind Through the Interior of a Chiang Mai Gallery

   06 Nov 19:00:22  |  ThisIsColossal

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Interview: Jessica Oreck of the Office of Collecting & Design On Her Enormous Museum of Miniatures

   05 Nov 20:00:28  |  ThisIsColossal

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Dried Flowers Are Arranged into Passageways and Processions in Installations by Rebecca Louise Law

   05 Nov 20:00:27  |  ThisIsColossal

For millennia, dried flowers have been prepared for a vast array of uses ranging from decoration and fragrance to pigments and medicine. British artist Rebecca Louise Law taps into our perennial fascination with florals for her monumental, immersive installations. Exploring our relationship with the natural environment and the way blooms and botanicals have influenced cultures throughout history, her reinterpretations of existing architecture encourage the viewer to move around the space in a new way. More
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Diverse Ecosystems Merge in Hyperrealistic Paintings of Flora and Fauna by Lisa Ericson

   04 Nov 20:00:08  |  ThisIsColossal

Ecosystems intermingle and mammals find themselves immersed in an increasingly watery world in Lisa Ericson?s hyperrealistic acrylic paintings. A hare and a mountain goat, which would typically be found in dry climates or high elevations, stand atop a small island of cacti or rock in an ongoing series of works that view the climate crisis?especially the impending rise of sea levels?through a lens of magical realism.
Drawing on the artistic legacy of chiaroscuro, or contrast between the bright figures and deep background, Ericson’s compositions appear as if a spotlight has been directed on the scene to highlight unusual interactions, such as a fox ferrying bluebirds across a waterway or a mountain goat stranded on a submerged rocky peak. More
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Photographer Levon Biss Illuminates the Strange, Otherworldly Chrysalises of Butterfly Pupae

   04 Nov 20:00:07  |  ThisIsColossal

A photographer known for using the macro to investigate the micro, Levon Biss (previously) continues his explorations into the vast world of entomology. His recent butterfly pupae series centers on “the diversity of design and form” through illuminating portraits of approximately 30 specimens as they undergo metamorphosis and complete the final, most vulnerable stage of the transition from adolescence to adulthood.
Otherworldly and bordering on the bizarre, many of the chrysalises have evolved to be deceptive in appearance, acting as necessary camouflage from potential predators by impersonating nearby plants and surroundings: some mimic the natural, like those that imitate a rotting plantain or mossy hunk of bark, while others are more artful, like those spotted with Kusama-esque dots or cloaked in a mirrored gold coating. More
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More Than 500,000 Black LEGO Structure Ekow Nimako?s Vast Afrofuturistic Cityscapes

   03 Nov 20:00:13  |  ThisIsColossal

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Delicately Carved Wood Engravings Are Transformed into Dreamlike Paintings by Matt Roussel

   03 Nov 20:00:11  |  ThisIsColossal

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A Five-Meter Magnifying Glass Uses the Sun?s Immense Power to Melt Metal

   02 Nov 20:00:06  |  ThisIsColossal

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