I’m loving this scupture of Buddha made out of scissors — it’s at Emporio in Delhi. The rest of the store is decorated with monochromatic scissors — what a cool way to revise such a mundane instrument of the everyday.
March 1, 2009
Cuts like a knife
Posted by tf under Arts and crafts, India | Tags: art, buddha, delhi, emporio, retailing, scissors, sculpture, white scissors |Leave a Comment
May 7, 2008
You’re all sheep!
Posted by tf under Arts and crafts | Tags: animals, art, contemporary arts, creative reuse, phones, reuse, sculpture, sheep, sheep sculpture, telephone parts |[4] Comments
Loved these sheep sculptures made out of reused parts from old phones; such an unexpected and imaginative creation! I can’t figure out who the artist is, but I’m enamored. (Via Craft.)
April 30, 2008
Intentional street art in NYC
Posted by tf under Arts and crafts, New York | Tags: art, beauty in the everyday, downspout, joshua allen harris, kelly goeller, plastic bags, public art, sculpture, street art, whimsy, wooster collective |[2] Comments
Two cool projects: a pixellated gush of water from an old downspout and a plastic-bag Loch Ness Monster constructed over a subway vent so it “comes alive” every time a train rushes by underground.
The first, Gawker reports, was NYU student Kelly Goeller’s assignment for Intro to Sculpture. The other, which I found via Wooster Collective, is a piece by Joshua Allen Harris (who also did the plastic-bag polar bear) best understood by watching a YouTube clip:
These are the things that make me love NY….