Artist Sonia Rentsch created this striking series of sculptures for January Biannual (photographed by Albert Comper and art direction by Olivia Nichols), using natural materials like leaves, sticks and seed pods to mimic the form of guns and other weapons. Entitled “Harm Less,” the images stir thoughts of beauty and violence within man and nature.
See the rest: Artist Sonia Rentsch creates guns made from nature
Phenomenal artwork by Natalie McKean, who uses scratch art to create these robotic sea creatures.
An entire slideshow/menagerie of critters can be viewed here: http://www.treehugger.com/slideshows/culture/artist-scratches-life-into-robotic-aquatic-creatures/
credit: Thierry Cohen, courtesy of Danziger Gallery
British artist Tony Plant, a sand-painter and photographer who borrows his canvas from nature by using the wet sand of low-lying coastal lands of England as his working surface. His art is deceptively simple but impressive, employing simple tools like garden rakes to create large-scale sand artworks.
(via Artist’s Massive Sand Paintings Disappear With the Tides (Video) : TreeHugger)
Interesting piece. The forest looks like a human form with the wolf representing the heart.
“The things you own end up owning you. It’s only after you lose everything that you’re free to do anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
via The Most Inspiring Art of 2012 : Page 7
credit: Sannah Kvist
You don’t need the latest and greatest device to be able to record the beauty of the world. You need an artistic eye, a drive to find it, and a device that you have mastered well enough to capture the moment.
Think about it. Some of the greatest images the world has seen have been captured on what some may call “obsolete” old-fashioned cameras with “out-dated” technology. Henri Cartier-Bresson, the father of modern photojournalism, used a Leica film camera — a ridiculous old contraption that has no place in the modern digital world, right? Well… Keep in mind that the reason few people today can compare their work to that of Cartier-Bresson, despite the fact that practically anyone has access to a fancy DLSR, is because few people have an eye for “the decisive moment.” Capturing a compelling image is not about what electronics you can buy — it is much more human than that.
To say that you must have the latest device in the marketplace to be able to keep an edge as a photographer is to ignore the most fundamental thing needed for creating beautiful images: You.
via Kevin Russ’s Stunning iPhone Photos Prove Technology Won’t Make You an Artist
© Jessica Rath
Drap d’or gueneme
3” x 3.5” x 3.5” (each), high-fire glazed porcelain
From Richard Shilling’s land art sculptures to Brett Van Ort’s photos of land mine landscapes, some of my favorite art to feature here on TreeHugger is that which reminds us of the connection between man and the natural world.
From Jessica Rath’s project, take me to the apple breeder:
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“Intrigued by science journalist Michael Pollan’s description of rare, odd apples from the Noah’s Ark of apples in his book Botany of Desire, Jessica visited the Plant Genetics Resource Unit (PGRU) in Geneva, New York, a joint USDA/Cornell University project. The reason for this vast living collection… unknown to most people, edible apples cannot be planted from seed, they must be grafted from existing trees, thus keeping the variety literally “alive” to save it. At the PGRU, buds are collected from apple trees all over the world, then grafted onto dwarf rootstock and matured until fruiting.”
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