Each of these art projects celebrate the unexpected. Enjoy!
1. Leafy dress-ups
Azuma Makoto frequently dreams about a mysterious, loitering, human-plant creature. So he created the “Leaf Man” art project, to “elevate the value of flowers and plants.”
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2. Flip-book art
Remember making little flip-books in school? We would draw stick figures in the corners of our notebooks that, when you flipped through the pages, would walk and run and jump and cartwheel. Kinetic artists Mark Rosen and Wendy Marvel motorised this century-old animation technique in little boxes for gallery exhibitions. But now, they have created a FlipBooKit that you can build yourself, and populate with your own animation! My mind is literally boggling with the possibilities. This one is on my birthday wish-list.
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3. Subway signs
Have you seen this lovely little happiness-spreading video? Apparently, subway conductors in New York City are required to point at a black and white sign at every stop, to confirm that the train has fully arrived on the platform. So these people stood in front of the signs and held up messages of their own, just to brighten the conductors’ days.
4. Deep south photography
Every time photographer Irene Suchocki releases a new collection, I experience “I want to go there” envy. This group of black-and-whites, called Southern Gothic, beautifully captures the humid and sultry mystery that permeates parts of Southern USA. I want to go (back) there.
5. Lacy newspapers
Canadian artist Myriam Dion cuts incredibly intricate patterns into old copies of newspapers, creating beautiful, lace-like artworks. I can’t even fathom the combination of vision, patience and talent this must require.
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Love the subway video, it definitely made me smile!
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Isn’t it fun? I love the idea of surprising people with laughter in their workplace.
I’m a little in love with everything here, but especially the flip book and the photography. I’ve lived at the northern edge of the South for so long that I forget its character–even though there’s a historic cemetery just around the corner, right between two houses at the edge of my neighborhood. It’s the family plot for whoever owned this land before it became suburbs, and though the actual graves have been moved to a larger cemetery, the headstones remain–a little eery, right in the middle of twenty-something year old homes!
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That sounds rather magical. I love the mystery of the south