The Bird's Nest

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marisais: untitled by natalya lobanova on Flickr.

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marisais:

untitled by natalya lobanova on Flickr.

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I took a 7 week coast to coast road trip after being laid off...

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I took a 7 week coast to coast road trip after being laid off from Boeing. I didn’t have a camper but realized that being able to pull off the road at a rest or truck stop was the way to go to make the trip affordable. With a few sheets of 1/2” plywood and misc. hardware this is what I came up with. The effort was well worth the time and materials.

likeafieldmouse: Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook - Two Planets/Village...

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likeafieldmouse:

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook - Two Planets/Village and Elsewhere (2008-12)

“Every life is in search of a narrative… For the storytelling impulse is, and always has been, a desire for a certain ‘unity of life’. In our own postmodern era of fragmentation and fracture…narrative provides us with one of our most viable forms of identity - individual and communal’” - Richard Kearney

“Two Planets/Village and Elsewhere is about the village (the here) and elsewhere (the there) and how stories link people across continents, cultures and even time-periods.

Rasdjarmrearnsook brought some visitors from elsewhere to her village in northern Thailand. The visitors came in the form of unfamiliar paintings and they told stories from long ago and far away: of dances in Parisian cafés, nude picnics and haymaking. These paintings by Renoir, Manet, and Van Gogh prompted the villagers to share their own stories.”

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westernwaves: Ji Hye Park backstage Dolce and Gabbana Fall...

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westernwaves:

Ji Hye Park backstage Dolce and Gabbana Fall 2013

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artsyrup: Without TItle by Patrycja Podkościelny

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artsyrup:

Without TItle by Patrycja Podkościelny

yourloveticklesmyheart: breezeonsundaymorning: *how much milk...

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yourloveticklesmyheart:

breezeonsundaymorning:

*how much milk you pour in your cereal

bohemian-fleur: fue-go: perf want more pastel/boho?...

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yunatakesphotos: Natalia O’Nous

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yunatakesphotos:

Natalia O’Nous

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laguarifaifa: Hesitate by Alexa Meade and performance artist...

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laguarifaifa:

Hesitate by Alexa Meade and performance artist Sheila Vand - [video]

The artist’s statement:

Alexa Meade and Sheila Vand have collaborated on a body of work that explores the fluidity of form in relation to time and space. By stripping the subject of depth and dimension, a displacement of identity ensues, demonstrating the power of context over content.

Meade’s signature style of painting portraits on the body is submerged in a canvas of milk, where Vand’s performance is dictated by the opposing forces of fixed shadows and fluid space. Together, the artists compose an expressive identity for each image, but as the milk interacts with the pre-arranged pose, a new identity is formed that must be constantly re-imagined and re-shaped in the moment. As the paint seeps away into the milk, Vand’s performance must continually shift to accommodate its new context and form while Meade’s photography must capture the ephemeral moments before they de-materialize. The result is an ever-evolving, time-based portrait that includes every layer of the process within each consecutive frame. Each new visual identity is a product of the versions that came before.

The surface of the milk intersects Vand’s body at an uneven and unusual plane, creating a sense of movement and depth beneath her compressed form. This play on dimensionality in the picture plane evokes an optical illusion that activates the viewer’s experience by challenging their common perceptions. The identifiable becomes ineffable, giving the flat photography of the painted three-dimensional space an unsettling tone. By blending the borders between the subject and its surroundings, identity is muted and we’re left with the distilled nuances that shape the space.