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“Creating a Sense of Oneness” by Louise Buyo and Jim Hall
In the mid-nineties, Dahlsen was gathering driftwood on the Victorian Coastline for a furniture project when he found huge amounts of plastic litter washed up along the shore. The artist accumulated 80 bags of the garbage and dragged them to his studio to begin his [...]
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Surrealism lives! Eric Bragg is a Californian surrealist sculptor, novelist, poet, essayist, photographer, and purveyor of strangeness. His online exhibition, Faith and Filth, a rant against the Roman Catholic Church, is not for the faint of heart. From his web site:
“Whether through sound collage, image-capture, writing, explorations of enchanted spaces, or whatever spontaneous means of expression, [...]
Swoon (Caledonia Curry) makes life-sized paper cutout and wheatpaste murals that she installs in urban environments. She is also known for her floating cities. One such project, the Swimming Cities of Serenissima, crashed the Venice Biannale in 2009.
Upper image linked from http://www.swimmingcities.org/the-rafts/
Lower image linked from jacknifestyle.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/swoon/
Susan Danis is a maker of uncanny objects. She specializes in reliquaries and other unsettling assemblages, such as the “Octopus Egg” pictured above. Here is her contribution to a San Francisco Bay Area Day of the Dead exhibition:
She says:
“I embrace the physical stuff of the world and love using it to create new vocabularies of form and [...]