these beautiful and tragic landscapes of delapidated urban sprawls such as detroit are merely part of the output of american artist scott hocking, who collects objects and abandoned possessions from deserted industrial locations to create large-scale ‘art trouvé’ installations
(tip via ‘léon hendrickx’)
…rather than places of rest and solitude; they foster exchange between the users and the passers-by…
some whacky public benches with a message from artist jeppe hein
(via mister ‘uwe’)
her intricate handicraft has been featured on the me blog before, at least twice in fact, but so long as evelin kasikov continues to make such beautiful stuff i’ll post her work again…
(thanks to funky fresh crazy ‘d’ for reminding me again…)
local artist ‘arno coenen’ will be unveiling his new pyrography at shoe’s unruly gallery, starting late next week… sounds dangerous
interesting article (via ‘it’s nice that’) on the series of images originally shot by artist robert longo using some of his friends dressed in suits that eventually became his iconic (and often plagiarised) ‘men in cities’ charcoal drawing series…
…friends that included Cindy Sherman and Larry Gagosian who were young and perfectly positioned on the apogee of that era of art, ready to embrace a spirit of abandon, punk & irony…
