Spooky ex-votos (votive offerings to a saint or to a divinity) illustrating people that have miraculously survived the fall, due to Saint Mary that was present at the scene of the accident.
Check the full collection and more info in original post.
Check some more ex-votos here and here.
( Waterlilies are also known as Nymphaeaceae.)
drawings by Jackson S. Wingate from his Blood Factory tmblr, featuring fleshy, disfigured, twisted, darkly-humored creatures that are often in a philosophical mood.
click HERE for one more…
3 coffins by New York City-based artist Olaf Breuning (previously presented here) created with the help of specialized carpenters from Ghana.
Colorful fantasy coffins, which are as much sculptures as caskets, are a traditional feature of Ghanaian funeral culture.
Found here.
Political paste-up in Paris from an unknown artist inspired by Hokusai’s “Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife”. Via The Real Art of Street Art
Imagine is a performance based project of Pedro Reyes that uses the universal medium of music to direct our attention to the madness of gun policies. The musicians participating in concert-like events are using musical instruments constructed by confiscated guns in order to denounce the production and trafficking of guns. In Mexico, where the artist and the guns are from, the project makes the air heavy, as +60,000 drug-related deaths have occurred in the 6-year tenure of outgoing president Felipe Calderón, who notoriously declared “war on drugs”.
As Reyes said: “I wanted to liberate these objects from their demons rather than perpetuating their association to death. When the instruments are played, it is as if some sort of exorcism is performed on them, and the negativity they inherently posses turns into something positive.”
Illustration for Einstein Tomb by Lebbeus Woods 1940-2012
“I’m not interested in living in a fantasy world … All my work is still meant to evoke real architectural spaces. But what interests me is what the world would be like if we were free of conventional limits. Maybe I can show what could happen if we lived by a different set of rules” New York Times. August 25, 2008.
Stop motion film by UK artist and illustrator Erica Luke. Sound by Matthew Perryman
via colossal
Human limbs on sale at Wesker and Son pop-up butchers at London’s Smithfield Market.
The limbs may look eerily realistic but there are actually fashioned from animal meat and the butcher shop is part of a publicity stunt, designed to promote the release of the new video game Resident Evil 6. All the proceeds from the human part sales went to the Limbless Association, a charity for amputees and other people who have lost limbs; a clever strategy according to WWT which helped the stunt to remain within a ‘politicaly correct’ framework.
“Before I die, I want to… ” # Individual wishes – imaginative and banal – inscribed on an installation at the fence of a reclaimed public space in La Latina neighborhood, Madrid. Photo by WWT
Jenn Violetta makes pictures of pretty things and not so pretty things.
Via Robotmafia. check also Jenn Viotettas flickr photostream here.
Pictures by Alex Prager. Via but does it float
The ‘Merciful Dream (Pietà V)’ by Jan Fabre, is a white marble sculpture inspired by Michelangelo’s iconic work.
It was made in 2011 and it was presented for the first time along with 4 more pieces (Pietà I-IV) at the 54th Venice Biennale, @the Nuova Scuola Grande di Santa Maria della Misericordia.
More info here. More pics here and here.
