A Mexican Artist Shows The Power Of A Book By Distorting The Base Of A Brick Wall

Mexican artist Jorge Méndez Blake transforms literature into sculpture with his newest piece of installation art, titled The Castle.
Blake’s work indicates the huge impact that a publication has on our society. His project introduces a wall of bricks that at first sight may look like any ordinary construction but when you look up close you notice a single publication at the base of the structure, and it manages to curve an entire 75-foot-long wall. Putting there between the floor and bricks is a novel ‘The Castle’ by Franz Kafka. The novel itself is regarded as approximately non-transparent and frequently unresponsive bureaucracy and the struggles that lie within this system.

Franz Kafka’s individual life is the main inspiration of his job — that introverted author spent most of his life in solitude and just a little quantity of his work had been published during his life.

This isn’t the first time that Jorge Méndez Blake is motivated by literature, and it has the impact to society. On his website, you’ll be able to locate more three-dimensional installations that are inspired by different literary writers such as George Perec, Jule Verne, and Jorge Luis Borges. Check out the installation for yourself below.

h/t my modern met

Stefano Cerio Captured China’s Abandoned Fun Parks In All Their Glory

Stefano Cerio has something for theme parks, cruise ships, and holiday hotels. Only, he does not visit them for precisely the very same reasons most people do.

Cerio isn’t looking for a fantastic time. Rather, he is on the prowl for pictures of the planet’s most gloomy vacation attractions. And in this show, he tackles the grey world of abandoned Chinese theme parks.

“When there’s a blue sky, I can’t take a photo,” the photographer states. “Otherwise it may look like a holiday brochure.”

Lucky for Cerio, he does not have to await a cloudy day really. Most days wind up being gray as a result of smog.

“If there’s a political component, this is where it seeps in,” Cerio states. “My pictures of Macau, one of the only places in China where gambling is legal, reveal exactly how different it’s from Las Vegas. Instead of glowing lights, it’s foggy, with clear lagoons.”

 

For Cerio, capturing the emptiness of these parks is essential to capturing the portrait of the places that he visits:

“I like to take photos of the people that are not there; I call them “portraits of this lack.” I think there’s a sort of reflection when all is empty, particularly in areas where, a couple of hours earlier, there were millions of people.”

In addition to his China Fun collection, Cerio has seized darkened scenes of ski slopes during the night, empty playgrounds after dark, cruise ships, and water parks in the winter.

What can we say? He appears to have something for depressing destinations. We only wish Banksy‘s Dismaland was around. We all know that’d be correct up Cerio’s alley.

h/t Yen / BBC / sobadsogood

A Japanese Artist Creates Powerful Illustrations That Will Make You Think

A picture is worth a million words… At least that is how people feel when viewing illustrations by a mysterious Japanese performer Avogado6.

The illustrator and movie editor doesn’t share many personal facts about his life. “I am a normal person who likes chemistry,” he writes on his Twitter profile, but the functions of the artist are far from ordinary.

Avogado6 manages to create romantic, vibrant images by drawing on emotions and feelings that might seem hard to explain with words.

The artist has more than 650k followers on Twitter and has published two books.

h/t: boredpanda

Colorful and Hallucinogenic Tattoos of Dane Nicklas

Dane Nicklas is a tattoo artist now working out from Valentine’s Tattoo in Seattle, a feminist-powered and inclusive space famous for its collection of wonderfully offbeat and experimental musicians. Dane’s work fits this market perfectly, mixing classical artwork symbols with pale colors and psychedelic illusions, such as warped geometry, oversized weeping eyes, and massaging heads. Sadness and absurdity beneath the normal seem to be recurring themes in Dane’s stylishly strange world. Visit the artist on Instagram to view more.

h/t illusion.scene360.com