pic of the day:
Sophia Collier designs fascinating sculptures of water in motion, made in carved acrylic.
“One day I was walking across a bridge and thought I wish I could just reach down into the water and pick up a piece of that shining surface and keep it forever.
I didn’t start working on this right away because in those years I had a job at a mutual fund. But, from that work, I did know it was possible to develop software to model vast, turbulent, nonlinear data sets like money … and also, maybe, water in motion.
In early 2008 I was ready and returned to this idea full blast. I gave away a closet full of business suits and lady-shoes and began to build my studio and skills. I traveled to Detroit and found idled expert machinists to teach me precision milling. I learned animation and 3D modeling. I experimented with materials and developed a color palette in acrylic block. Rather than hire fabricators, I developed methods and equipment to make every piece myself in my own studio.
Now, when I look at my finished work, I see peace. Powerful emotion and turbulence have found a resting place. The surface is a lense for pure light.”
Paper Cuts is an on-going collage project by Andrew Groves:
“A new, ongoing series of works constructed from cut paper. I have long thought that paper cuts would be a good match for my illustration style; allowing me to work in an analogue medium whilst allowing the control and opportunity for “un-doing” things that creating with vectors provides.”
A series of dazzling abstract fluid acrylic paintings by Mark Chadwick.
“In my current series of fluid paintings, the paint is manipulated in a number of different ways each driven by ideas surrounding process, materiality and chance encounters. The unique display of forms and colours are brought together by the artist’s hand but manipulated though the use of machines or natures forces. Some paintings are spun or shaken while others rely upon reactions between materials or gravity to allow the painting to almost form itself. The paintings are built up of many layers of paint, each creating it’s own flowing abstract surface left open to interpretation by the viewer.”
