Vainilla y Canela

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bookspaperscissors:

Ceramic art by Carol Gouthro

“I have a strong interest in natural forms, cultural artifacts and personal mementos. I am drawn to ornament, embellishment, pattern, and texture. For the last ten years the vessel forms in my ceramic work have slowly been evolving into botanically inspired hybrid sculptural forms. In working on these pieces I have become more involved with the details, the close ups, the abstract, the peering into. My interest in detail, layers and encrustations has been heightened by repeated travels to India and China. I am fascinated by the complexity, diversity, beauty and danger of the natural world and this leads to thoughts about growth, nourishment, attraction, and sexuality. Built into these hybrids are some of the artifacts and mementos that form my DNA.”

(Fuente: its-the-end-of-the-road, vía rougevision)

poptech:

Interview: Lukas Large and the natural world, illustrated

I’ve long been a fan of Lukas Large’s Tumblr and its beautiful images of scientific illustrations. Each post is a single drawn image from the natural world (an animal, bones, a vintage anatomical drawing) with links back to the illustration’s source. The site is updated multiple times a day, and readers are also invited to submit drawings of their own or others’ work.

Scientific illustration is a wonderful blend of science and art, and Large’s site gives visibilty to some works that otherwise may have languished unnoticed in various medical journals or textbooks in dusty libraries around the world. It also helps draw attention to new artists working in this field (like the image above from Brooklyn-based George Boorujy).

I was curious to learn more about the man behind the website. Here’s a bit about his background and what he finds inspiring.

Michelle Riggen-Ranson: Where are you originally from? Where are you based now?
Lukas Large: I grew up in Stourbridge in the West Midlands in England and I still live there and work in the nearby city of Birmingham.  

What is your background/vocation?
I studied Genetics at University but I don’t currently work in anything to do with science.

Why did you start the blog?
My grandfather had a book with illustrations of birds by John Gould and I remember being fascinated by the beauty of the images. Ever since then I’ve had an interest in the art of natural history and this went hand in hand with a love of nature and science. 

The thing that prompted me to actually begin the blog was a visit to the “Images of nature” gallery at the Natural History Museum where they have an outstanding collection of scientific illustrations on show. This made me realize just how many amazing illustrations were out there. I thought it would be nice to start a blog that would feature these beautiful artworks that would hopefully increase interest and appreciation of them.

Read more…

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myampgoesto11:

Jaume Plensa: The Hermit XI (2012)/ Nuage (2011)

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opus53:

Gold Weight; Bird Claw, Asante (Ghana), Brass, 19th-20th Century

oliphillips:

UV Portraits

by Cara Phillips

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