Friday, April 25, 2008

an outside map (view) of Ulleungdo

The following map was made by Lee Gyu-won after his inspection of Ulleungdo in 1882. The name of the map is “Ulleungdo Woido”, and essentially means “an outside map (view) of Ulleungdo.” In other words, the map focuses on the shoreline and neighboring islands, islets, and rocks. Notice how the mountain peaks slant inward, which suggests that you are viewing them from the “outside.” read on

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Yellow in April

Hannu Väisänen . Yellow in April, 2007 oil on canvas, 100 x 81 cm

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

BedRoom

michael antkowiak

Monday, April 14, 2008

early morning mountain music

Daniel Tierney creates spaces, then recreates them in his painting, at times they look like an SF environments, or a web like haunted cities

early morning mountain music ..........48" x 48"...........acrylic and archival tape on panel........2006

mr freeze hates this................48" x 48"...................acrylic and archival tape on panel..........2006 xxxxxxxxxx

balls................................54" x 54"........................ archival tape on lambda photo.............2006 http://www.invincibleclock.com/places10.html early morning mountain music

The accident.....................60" x 84"...................acrylic and archival tape on panel...............2006

It is not an empty clearness, a bottomless sight.

It is a visibility of thought,

In which hundreds of eyes, in one mind, see at once.

from 'An Ordinary Evening in New Haven' by Wallace Stevens

Venetian Blind, 1965/83 (detail)9.25 x 30 inchesUnique composite

Photography by Ray Metzker. "Composites" series.

"Composites" have been assembled from discovered vintage prints made in the mid-60’s. Metzker, at age 70, had a fresh opportunity to finally complete a body of work begun over 30 years ago.

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

David Haines interrupts his perfectly beautiful illustrative images with bites of chewing - gums, blood stains and mosquitos...I love the reasult.

osiris seat 2006 Pencil and chewing - gum on paper 50x70 cm

Dissolving Prophesies’ 2007 Pencil and chewing - gum on paper 113.5x140 cm

Monday, April 07, 2008

Jigsaw Collages

beautiful Jigsaw Collages by Mel Andrinca

via ffound

Sunday, April 06, 2008

Hurricane Images

Debbie Fleming

Fallen Jerusalem

Jan Henle Fallen Jerusalem, 1982Gelatin silver print41 3/4 x 60 3/4 inches