Xu Zhongmin, Trekking Around the Mountain No. 2, and other Kinetic Sculptures

Xu Zhongmin, Trekking Around the Mountain No. 2,

Skeletonwalkers

kinetic sculpture

These kinetic sculptures are brilliant. Identical movable dolls are fixed to a device that slowly spins, each doll is set in a position that would simulate progressive movement, and a strobe light creates the illusion of the dolls physical movement (similar to the concept of a flip book).

A Sign of the Times/ Pic-Nic in the Room

"Anthony Kleinepier and TTTVO, two designers based in Eindhoven, started to present their products together since the end of 2002 and have exhibited in the important designer's events worldwide. Their works, presented in a mixed arrangement which recalls a certain staged setting, challenge peopleﾕs conformist idea about interior design and at the same time interact with the audience, encourage them to take part and not only observe."- From Art-U Room

Now and then you can bend, it's okay to lean over my way.

Carolina Raquel Antich
Naval Battle (2007)
Art U-Room, Tokyo

"If something in the deli aisle makes you cry you know I’ll put my arm around you and I’ll walk you outside, through the sliding doors, why would I mind? You're not a baby if you feel the world. All of the babies can feel the world. That's why they cry."

Melting Ice Pops (1999-2006)

Paquatuck Avenue (darth vader)

Tuttle Point (hulk)

Lashley Beach (poof)

Ocean Avenue (blue martian)

Montauk Avenue (tweety)

Toledo Road (spiderman)

Evergreen Avenue (powerpuff girl)

Moriches Bay (marvin the martian)

Moriches Island Road (Supersonic)

Turtle Point (Jimmy Neutron)

Maple Ave. (Panda)

Atlantic Ave. (Bugs Bunny)

Atlantic Ave. (Spongebob)

By Meredith Allen

"My photography depicts the ever-changing landscape of the world around me. I look for opportunities to introduce a new context to my surroundings. And through this exploration, I aim to incite the subtle tension between nature and culture, innocence and cynicism and the beautiful and the grotesque."
Meredith Allen

Mongolian Feast

Fu Jijiang, Mongolian Feast (2007)
Krampf Gallery

While Rome Burns

Water Series #22 2009

Kenya #1 1997

Himalayan Landscape 1999

Patagonian Landscape The Horns 1990

By Jan Aronson

When asked why he writes, Vladimir Nabokov answered "so I can find out what happens."

"After over forty years the smell of oil paint and turpentine is as delicious today as it was in my youth. The process of making art is magical and intoxicating . It suduced me all those years ago and it still does." -Jan Aronson

Sweet Darlin'

we are the tenants of circumspect

the foragers of the illusive eucharist;

the "miners for a heart of gold."

would we still be so shy?

we are absent a paperfold

will you lay that crease?

I would like to see you here.

unidirectional

Ftown building
Sendai, Japan
Atelier Hitoshi Abe

Night and Reality

Yoshi Abe At Night circa 2001

"Simplicity is an appreciation of scenes or objects as ends in themselves. Not as anything symbolic, or literary, but simply as things-in-themselves. Everything has its own nature, its integrity [...] If art is the selective recreation of reality according to the artist’s own value judgements, then one must have the ability to see that which is worth recreating. While random objects, scenes, and events crowd out the vision of the artist, and impose themselves on the viewer, the ability to single out the important– to home in on it – is what singles out the artist as blessed with a unique ability" -Yoshi Abe

The Good is Oft Interred With Their Bones

“Quello che voi siete noi eravamo, Quello che noi siamo voi sarete.”

Capucin Crypt below the Church of Santa Maria della Concezione

Via Veneto, 27 – Piazza Barberini

Rome, Italy

Marmol and Radziner

Forte de Casa

Rineke Dijkstra

Bullfighters

I suggest you stay in the safety of your own Home.