Fernandes Fernandes
Fernandes Fernandes:
Gorgeous constructed face piece. Reminds me of a muscle that goes over dogs faces to stop them from biting others. Love the volume and shape of the piece. Very sophisticated but with also a dark hidden twist. Why is she wearing cage on her face?
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Compression Cradle is a machine that affectionately squeezes the body with a sequence of aerated volumes that hold you tight – in an attempt to prepare the self for a future that assumes a lack of human touch.
Through my interpretation this reminds me of the paranoia people have in order to restrict themselves from physical contact to refrain from catching diseases and or viruses. Lock themselves away in an airlock bag, much like how we preserve our meat in the fridge from spoiling.
Lucy McRae: Wearable Sculptures
Lucy McRae is an Australian artist exploring the relationship between the body, technology and the grey areas of synthetic and organic materials.. Each of her projects inhabits an artistic realm that draws heavily from readings and erudition in science, sculpture, digital technologies, architecture and fashion, informed by the fringes and extremes of our culture. Set on challenging the limits of the body, McRae manipulates the body’s natural structure to invent novel anatomical forms and adornments that are imbued with a haunting visceral realism that has become her creative insignia.
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Inspired by the use of fringing around the neck, almost looks like a beard. The knit consumes the head, much like a mask, but the mask mimics aa mutated face. Makes me think? As we become more immune to disease and viruses, will we, though evolution, begin to physically adapt.
Kim Rose Knits: Chest Hair
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This reminds me of the stupid ways people cover themselves in order to protect themselves from germs. How far will we go? Will we eventually all start wearing space helmets?
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Andy Renolds: Bucket Family
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Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari – highlike
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Aspergillus flavus (bright green colonies), Penicillium (blue/green colonies), yeast/bacteria (pink/red colonies):
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Wolf & Badger:
Creating bubbles out of fabric using hair ties to secure it together. A technique I would like to explore through my final project. Creating various sized bubbles that crawl up the body would be very fascinating to explore.
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page from sketchbook, looking into this quote further. From my understanding the quote illustrates that as society our news needs to be "spoon fed" to us. Almost as if its complexity is too hard to be given too us.
Brazilian artist Renato Dib creates exquisite adaptations of the human form using velvet, silk, and other materials. The intimacy of the human form serves as an endless source of inspiration in his work. Beginning his career at a very early age, Renato’s work was first featured in an exhibition at the age of 14.
Textiles may represent or be like skin, spots, hair, wrinkles, grooves, eyelids, internal tissues, and organs. Folded fabric could be like the folds of the brain.
Since artwork cannot be touched, using attractive materials or creating situations that would prompt touch would be a sort of “transgression,” if that’s possible. It’s the same idea in the field of human relations: to touch or not to touch wounds and openings?
Campylobacter jejuni bacteria:
B220/0561
Rights Managed
10.0 MB (1.3 MB compressed)
1643 x 2127 pixels
14.0 x 18.0 cm ⏐ 5.5 x 7.1 in (300dpi)
Reminds me of a ball of blue yarn.
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Purple haze: This fluorescent image shows a magnified mangrove fern leaf
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Succubus:
Bruce Riley. Reminds me of that experiment you did at. school with the dish soap and colored milk. Watching how the dish soap would disperse the colored milk around the plate.
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This image reminds me of bubble art, I have been experimenting with this technique.
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David Goodsell:
David Goodsell artistically expresses his scientific background in elaborate, colorful renderings of molecules. Trained and still practicing as a molecular biologist, Goodsell illustrates the detailed inner workings of cells in intricate works that combine digital illustrations of biomolecules with hand-drawn and painted elements. “Biological systems are a source of constant amazement for me,” he says. Goodsell’s work exists in a long tradition of scientific imagery that doubles as fine art and has overtones of nature painting. Although his work does not depict objects that are visible to the human eye, it renders the microscopic foundations of nature visible, presenting seemingly abstract images within the rubric of representational painting.
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<https://ccsb.scripps.edu/goodsell/>
Knitted jumper, 2013, Artist Unknown:
Gorgeous colour and full of texture. Want to run my hands down the jumper. reminds me of coral.
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Lisa Kellner:
"I am most interested in the consequence of human interactions with this synergy of contrasts. In each painting, sculpture, video or site-responsive Painting in Space, I incorporate the subtle social exchanges humans engage in. My objective is to build an ‘environment’, a vista formed on the basis of collaborative contrast and embedded with human perceptions. "
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Jürg Benninger- Masks
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I am intrigued by Benninger's work as he works a lot on the body using knit as his main medium of choice. He creates these grotesque masks that only fill half of the face. Almost makes me think, what's hiding behind? Makes it look like half of his face has been drawn on with pen and is fake. I did my own exploration into this idea, and started to place my samples on the face to see if I could get the same effect.
A combination of finger knitting and molded poly morph plastic.
This reminds me of polymorph plastic. Her organic shapes remind me of crashing waves. Consumed by the material, the head is suffocated.
Neri Oxman creates wearable 3D-printed structures for interplanetary voyages
3D Printed Wearable Capillaries “Wanderers” bio-engineered with Bacteria that can embed living matter. This 3D Printed Wearable Capillaries “The Wanderers” were unveiled as part of the exhibition: ‘The Sixth Element: Exploring the Natural Beauty of 3D Printing’ on display at EuroMold, 25-28 November, Frankfurt, Germany, Hall 11, Booth FN01. This work was done by Neri Oxman
Backstage Jean-Paul Gaultier Summer 2012:
Reinterpretation of all of Jean-Paul Gaultier's favorite motifs (fishnet prints and tattoos on the body, piercings on the ears, nose and nails!), Associated with silhouettes of women of the timeless class.
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Phenotype 2 and 3
Gorgeous colors. Contrast with the black. Organic.
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Juxtapoz Magazine - Studio Bertjan Pot's Masks, 2014
Dutch designer Bertjan Pot's masks were the product of a failed material experiment. "I wanted to find out if by stitching a rope together I could make a large flat carpet. Instead of flat, the samples got curvy. When I was about to give up on the carpet, Vladi came up with the idea of shaping the rope into masks. The possibilities are endless, I’m meeting new faces every day."
Sock Monkey: Li Edelkoord predicts mohair, feathers, bright colours, paper and crafts to trend this year. KNITWEAR
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Tiny Beauties: Visions From Under the Microscope | TIME.com
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