Brought up in apartheid-era South Africa, Adam Broomberg’s art has always been political and remains so in the Berlin home studio in which he lives and works| 1854 Photography
Working in industrial spaces for 10 years, and fascinated by the contemporary experience of images, Felicity Hammond makes installations combining imagery and sculpture| 1854 Photography
Happy Sleepy February Rain, wool and cashmere coating, cotton embroidery by hand, fusible interfacing, polyester stuffing, 2020 Happy Sleepy February Rain - the name of this little soft sculpture and the blue embroidery dashes on a grey cashmere background tell a story of the end of winter 2020 by the Detroit River. February accommodates well hunkering down to do some hand embroidery, both to pass the winter and to rescue the mind with creativity and ... >> read more The post Happy Sleepy Feb...| Happy Sleepy
Nearly a decade after winning BJP’s Breakthrough Single Image award, Adama Jalloh has become a trusted portrait photographer| 1854 Photography
Ahhhh …. That’s what listeners feel when they hear the opening lines of any book Stefan narrates. They know they are in safe hands; here is a story-teller extraordinaire whom they can trust with their ears and hearts. Authors also breathe a sigh of relief when Stefan spins [...] The post THE GOLDEN VOICE appeared first on Skyboat Media.| Skyboat Media
Gabrielle specializes in connection. Connecting to the text, to the author, to the actors. And [...]| Skyboat Media
In 2021 I made a series of diagrams for a book called Critical Visualization by Peter A. Hall and Patricio Davila. It was published at the end of 2022 and the contributor copies recently arrived. As the title suggests, this work takes an in depth look at how data is presented and how the viewer of visualizations can understand and accommodate for the inevitably biased systems that produce the data and its representations. It is ... >> read more The post Diagrams for Critical Visualization app...| Happy Sleepy
"Sculpture of an eye on a sparkly tear pedestal" DALL·E 2022-11-01 14.21.09 A recent meditation on grief and perseverance produced ideas of "an eye standing on a pedestal of or walking on legs made of its own tears". The language snippets were put into Dall-E and here are some of the results "Textile sculpture crying eye embroidered iris glass tear support" was the text and the AI is having some difficulty here with the concept ... >> read more The post Using Dall-E in the process of develop...| Happy Sleepy
Native American plums and nuts arranged as a mandala for curing in the garden shed that doubles as the photography studio, when such beauty is present. This mandala features nuts and fruit all native to north eastern North America and is possible through the work and generosity of PJ Chmiel who for the last decade has been restoring the soil and planting a native food forest near Kalamazoo, Michigan. A visit earlier in the week ... >> read more The post North American native hazelnuts, acorns...| Happy Sleepy
Adspace Oasis - art instead of advertising Imagine an Adspace Oasis in your fav online hangouts! Real public space where we and our friends could be served art of our choice vs advertising. #adspaceoasis There is no truly public space online to hang, only malls, private livingrooms, lobbies of trading floors. Rather miserable. In times of the plague, I really missed walking through crowds, in a city or at a festival or beach and hearing ... >> read more The post Adspace Oasis: imagining a t...| Happy Sleepy
Cats having a snack on the project burlap, with the cat fort in the background. Cat assistants were in full snacking and supervision mode in a recent outdoor studio session in the garden. A sunny weekend of high temperatures saw us drag our projects out of the basement studios and onto the circle lawn. Such a strange experience, to have such a warmth and angle of light but with no leaves on trees! Marc works ... >> read more The post Working with green coffee bean burlap bags in the garden st...| Happy Sleepy
“I would recommend this to any fans of elves and fantasy; the world this author [...]| Skyboat Media
“There are constant surprises, cliffhangers, reveals, and moving sentimental epiphanies throughout these adventures, and at [...]| Skyboat Media
“His prose – detailed, exotic, resonant of feelings, sounds and fragrances – soared well above [...]| Skyboat Media