New York-based sculptor Kate Clark’s artwork blends human faces with wild animals to make evocative creatures. Hugely interesting, a bit creepy. Great art.
Check her out on National Geographic TV, which shows what she hopes to communicate with her art and how she makes it.
Compelling music video for the song “Iron” by Woodkid. The black and white imagery suggests an interesting mythology. Cool song and visuals.
Click here to see a collection of cool oil paintings depicting colossal mechs in 1920 in Soviet Russia.
In the 1960s and ’70s, photographer Arthur Tress interviewed children about their dreams and then recreated their nightmares as photos. See more of them here.
Susu Laroche’s photographs are deliciously macabre. Check them out here.
You can also check out one of her short films below.
Patricia Piccinini’s art is provocative, disturbing and surprisingly sweet. She builds hyper-realistic models of monsters and humans interacting in a familiar way, suggesting a future of humans genetically engineering new animals to serve us in a variety of roles, from pet to bodyguard to nursemaid to playthings. The bizarre monsters in her work aren’t threatening but instead innocent and even helpful–the way an alien might see a cat or a dog. Bizarre in appearance, but familiar and even friendly in their service and the fondness the humans show to them. A few sculptures are below; see more here.
