Posts Tagged ‘Art & Culture’

Here are a few more art pieces to share with you. Excuse the bad photos. Insufficient lighting in the house and the reflective surface of the framing made them near impossible to take pictures of without better equipments.

The above is “Redneck Photon Charger” by our friend Jason, created with natural crystals inside the pods.

My partner and I each bought one piece of the “Hello Kitty” drawings. I forget what this body of work is actually called. The artist looked at the mouthless Hello Kitty from Japan as a symbol of the silencing of the feminine voice. So she got inspired to give Hello Kitty a different character. She definitely demands your attention. :-)

This one done by our friend Kaucyla. She did a series of these.

Oh, and Happy Holidays! :-D

Every year a certain person commissions an artist to create a piece of art as a holiday gift to friends. This year’s edition arrived a couple of days ago.

Looks like an ordinary photo album, no? Now see what it looks like opened:


Do you see what’s going on? It’s wonderful. Here’s what’s on a note that came with the piece.

Peter Coffin was born in Berkeley, California in 1972 and currently resides in New York City. His installations, sculptures, and photographs playfully explore social paradigms and perceptions of reality. Coffin’s work invites the viewer to observe and interact with nebulous principles such as memory, association, and interpretation, sometimes evoking the chimera of new age theory or fringe science. For this year’s project, Coffin presents a seemingly ordinary photo Album, which, when opened, expands into a constellations of found photographs linked by the image of a rainbow that spirals through each scene. In the spirit of iconic works by Robert Smithson, Vladimir Tatlin, Bruce Nauman, and Mario Merz, the spiral is a link to an infinity beyond our reach and serves as a symbol of the creative process.

Here are a couple of more pieces from the years passed: