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Argentina-based photographer Pablo A. Ferrari created this series, entitled Aeroplanes and Flowers, as an exploration of manufactured, steel commercial airplanes interacting with the natural beauty of a simple flower.

From a worm's eye view, Ferrari points his camera skyward and waits for each airplane to pass. From this perspective, the spatial relationship between…

Photographer Heidi Lender spent the first part of her career as an editor, writing about style and appearances in a world of high-end fashion. In a pursuit of a different kind of life, the artist left that world to move to India and to study yoga, before finding her voice behind the lens of a camera. She now splits her time between Amagansett, New York and Garzon, Uruguay, focusing all of her…

This puppy project is hilarious! Minneapolis-based company Carmichael Lynch regularly maintains an ongoing online project, Carmichael Collective, that boasts a variety of clever artwork for what they say is "creativity for creativity's sake." With art direction by Phil Jones, the company recently created this project, Dogs With a Napoleon Complex, in honor of…

Photographer and graphic designer Laurent Seroussi combined the beauty of the human female form with fascinating, symmetrical, and leggy bug bodies in this project entitled Insectes. The fantasy creations incorporate sleek female figures blending with the bodies of insects in extremely realistic and well-photoshopped depictions. According to his bio, "Laurent Seroussi’s…

By folding paper into these rhythmic and repetitive sculptures, artist Matthew Shlian gives patterns of life and motion to an otherwise flat form. Describing himself as a paper engineer, Shlian says, "I begin with a system of folding and at a particular moment the material takes over. Guided by wonder, my work is made because I cannot visualize its final realization; in this way I…

Artist Joy Umali has a portfolio of all kinds of surreal, swirling, and slightly rickety-looking furniture. Describing herself as a "Thingtician," she takes found objects and transforms them into custom-made, but sometimes unbelievable, household furnishings. In this project entitled Ladders, the artist installed several wobbly ladders in the sands of Rodeo Beach, Marin Headlands in San…

LA-based Tim Tadder knows how to capture a lively and active moment in just one click of the shutter. The artist, best known for his award-winning campaign work for popular brands, created this project entitled Water Wigs as what Tadder describes as "a further exploration into water weirdness."

Using bald men as the focus of each scene, Tadder and his team threw water balloons at the…

Hide your dollar bills when Korean artist Won Park is around or they may be transformed into tiny origami butterflies! Although after looking at all of these amazing designs, you may start handing over your dollar bills instead. This master of Origami can turn a single sheet of paper currency into all kinds of things, from living creatures like pigs, fish, and bulldogs, to tiny race cars and…

Using a variety of everyday materials, artist Jean-Pierre Seguin creates portraits by combining Pointillist techniques with collage. He uses everything from buttons and thread to plastic toy soldiers glued to the canvas to develop the series, entitled Assemblages. Through the use of unique materials, Seguin says he wants to "disturb viewers’ perceptions" and encourage his viewers…

Photographers Dagmar Keller and Martin Wittwer worked together to produce these stunning images, a project entitled I Knew Some of You Better Than Others, but I Miss You All. The collection of black and white self-portraits is a stunning body of work that was developed as a commentary on contemporary advertising trends. In the performance photographs, Keller and Wittwer…

Scottish sculptor David Mach thrives on the concept of taking everyday materials and collectively transforming them into extraordinary objects. From wire hangers to…

Artist Aakash Nihalani has an incredible talent for creating optical illusions with simple strips of colored masking tape. The New York-based artist really knows what he's doing when it comes to perspective! Using colors and shapes, he creates all kinds of geometric structures that have a three dimensional appearance, and then photographs people interacting with those imaginary…

London-based artist Arran Gregory's work spans from illustration to minimalist sculptures. In a recent exhibit at The Print House Gallery, titled WOLF, Gregory featured two of his Mirrored Animals sculptures alongside a variety of his detailed illustrations. In the sculptures, Gregory uses strong geometric shapes and angles, combined with a reflective mirrored material, to…

These expressive and passionate paintings by artist Françoise Nielly have a discernible intensity that emanate from each composition. Having mastered palette knife painting techniques, the artist uses thick strokes of oil on canvas to blend a certain abstraction into these figurative portraits. The paintings, which are based off of simple black and white photographs, feature extreme…

Brooklyn-based sculptor Stephen Shaheen created these mixed media installations to reflect little human bodies with lightbulbs as heads. The trio of sculptures, struggling to connect themselves to power in order to illuminate their recycled bulb heads, is an Untitled series. One of the human forms, with hand extended, successfully reaches the outlet and provides energy to a fellow…

Michel Assaad created this project, entitled La Double Vie (The Double Life), by merging two very different scenes together into one engaging composition. Using Photoshop, Assaad blended all kinds of stark tree branches with very solitary silhouetted figures. A lone man riding his bike becomes an intriguing moment of contemplation as the intertwining branches fill the space around and…

In this project by Swedish photographer Sannah Kvist, the artist decided to document her twenty-something friends during this time of youthful life when owning a couch is a rarity and and moving around to new homes or new cities is an easy process. The artist, photographer, and freelance photo editor, says, "Right now I'm interested in youth and death."

In All I Own, Kvist asks her…

Capturing bolts of lighting as they streak across the night sky is a tricky process that requires a lot of patience and a love for stormy weather. Photographer Mike Olbinski seems to have both of those characteristics, as illustrated in this fantastic series of energetic photographs.

Using long exposures, Olbinski captures amazing patterns of electrostatic sparks across the sky. He says, "Ever…

In this series of paintings, South Korean artist Shin-Young An creates exquisite portraits on a very distinctive canvas. The artist's painted images of women's faces overlap with text and images from daily newspapers. The selected canvas is An's attempt to emotionally process and contemplate worldly events in combination with her fine art. Using current articles as her foundation,…

Everyone has private secrets and personal facts about themselves that aren't easily shared with others. We all want to protect ourselves against criticism and teasing, so embarrassing moments are never really the first thing that we share with others. But the fact is, pretty much every single person has one of those deep, dark secrets that lingers around and is never revealed.

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