Monday, September 17, 2012

Peter Callesen

Peter Callesen- http://www.petercallesen.com/home/
Peter Callesen was born in Copenhagen in 1967. He is a Danish artist and author. He creates his artwork with A4 paper in large-scale installations. Each of his works have only used one sheet of paper. He uses paper because he says it is "probably the most common and consumed media used for carrying information today," but we "rarely notice the actual materiality" of it. Callesen believes that it is a "material that we are all able to relate to" and at the same time it is "neutral and open to fill with different meaning." As he states, "The thin white paper gives the paper sculptures a frailty that underlines the tragic and romantic theme of my works."
The emotions in his artwork are very raw because of the little use of material. It is really easy to see what his goal was.
Here are some pictures:

Terry Border

Terry Border- http://bentobjects.blogspot.com/
Terry Border is an artist who makes everyday objects come alive. Using household items and plain old wire, he creates hilarious scenarios we can't help but laugh at. His secret? He just imagines the saddest situation for a certain object and then builds around that idea. Why? It's usually the saddest situations people most connect with!
“I don’t mean for everything to be funny,” says Border, who lives in Indianapolis. “We all have different perspectives and my perspective happens to be kind of strange and twisted.”
The use of movement and his perspective are really well done.
Here are a few photos:

Banksy


Banksy is an English graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter.
His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humor with graffiti done in a distinctive stenciling technique. Such artistic works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world.
Banksy's work was born of the Bristol underground scene which involved collaborations between artists and musicians. According to author and graphic designer Tristan Manco and the book Home Sweet Home, Banksy "was born in 1974 and raised in Bristol, England. The son of a photocopier technician, he trained as a butcher but became involved in graffiti during the great Bristol aerosol boom of the late 1980s." 
Known for his contempt for the government in labelling graffiti as vandalism, Banksy displays his art on public surfaces such as walls, even going as far as to build physical prop pieces. 
Here are a few of his things:

Sunday, September 9, 2012

At first, taking 1,000 photos seemed impossible but I finished. I took about 10 pictures the first month and then about 100 pictures the second. Then all of August, I spent cramming in day trips to places where I could take pictures; not the brightest idea I've had. Almost half my photos are of trees but I think trees are just dandy so it's fine. Here 3 photos from my summer: