BEAUTY: Sculpture--Jourdan Joly

For summer, here are artist Jourdan Joly's delightful ice cream sculptures made out of plastic and resin! They never melt!

http://jourdanjoly.com/

BEAUTY: Sculpture--Dominic Wilcox

War. What is it good for?
Absolutely nothin'.

Artist and inventor Dominic Wilcox is known for his whimsical, incongruous creations often using humor, irony, and satire. This is his War Bowl in two colorways.

Wilcox says, "The red Battle of Waterloo bowl is made with melted British Artillery and French Infantry figures. The black English Civil War bowl uses Royalists and Parliamentarians figures."

To see more of Wilcox's fun, sly, and engaging work, visit his website. I particularly liked the Stained Glass Driverless Sleeper Car of the Future and the Pre-Handshake Handshake Device.

http://dominicwilcox.com/

BEAUTY: Sculpture and Photography--Aki Inomata

Sculpture. Photography. Hermit crabs. Nature.

From artist Aki Inomata's website:
"In this piece I gave hermit crabs shelters that I had made for them, and if they liked my shelters, I got them to use them as their shell. I overheard that the land of the former French Embassy in Japan had been French until October 2009; that it was to become Japanese for the following fifty years, and then be returned to France. This concept made me think of hermit crabs, which change their shells. The same piece of land is peacefully transferred from one country to the other. These kinds of things take place without our being aware of it. On the other hand, similar events are not unrelated to us as individuals. For example acquiring nationality, moving, and migration. The hermit crabs wearing the shelters I built for them, which imitate the architecture of various countries, appeared to be crossing various national borders. Though the body of the hermit crab is the same, according to the shell it is wearing, its appearance changes completely. It’s as if they were asking, 'Who are you?'"

http://www.aki-inomata.com/

BEAUTY: Mixed Media--Klari Reis

Klari Reis' work looks like standard fare at an average science lab, but she uses a new media plastic called epoxy polymer to create these "cultures" in actual petri dishes for her current project, "Hypochondria." The epoxy polymers interact and collide with one another creating unpredictable reactions and designs that resemble microscopic cellular structures or bacteria. In fact, Reis uses organic cellular imagery from biotech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area as a model for her work. She is creating a petri dish every day of this year. See all of them at her blog, The Daily Dish, linked below.

http://www.klariart.com/
http://klarireis.blogspot.com/