Canadian Duo Creates Life-Size Origami Costumes for Ballet Dancers

Montreal-based artists Melika Dez and Pauline Loctin joined forces in January 2018 to combine their imaginations in a creative collaboration. The end result, PLI.Ē Project, fuses Dez’s abilities as a motion photographer with Loctin’s experience in paper artwork and showcases dancers across the globe sporting hand-folded paper costumes. Loctin specifically designed each dress’s shape and color palette into the dancer who would be wearing it, and Dez worked to situate her models in iconic surroundings from the streets of New York City into the Louvre Museum in Paris. Loctin’s paper creations vary from resembling traditional ballet tutus to folded experimental contours.

Dez shares that the job came together in 2 stages: first as a studio shoot professional ballet dancers wearing Loctin’s creations, and afterward as a worldwide undertaking photographing dancers and costumes outside.

 

“Paper can be a delicate material to work with, and that is precisely the reason why we decided to make the impossible, possible. Whichever element we would be confronted with, water (rain), wind, we desired to show that we are limitless.”

You can view more from Loctin on Instagram and out of Dez on Instagram.

H/T fubiz

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Mind Boggling Timepiece Converts Motion Into Alluring Patterns

Relying on the systematic motion of the second’s hand, the Humism converts that practical cyclical motion to some more decorative, more alluring, more amazing.

Inspired by the kinetic art movement of the 50s, the Humism watch rejects the idea that time should be about amounts and measuring units, but instead than motion, because time as an entity keeps shifting.

With a 316L surgical-grade steel body, a sapphire crystal onto the front and rear, and a Japanese Automatic Seiko NH35A motion onto the interior, the watch has some pretty impressive specs, but none as striking as the revolving detail on the front. The minute and hour hands present themselves as an obstructed along with an outlined circle round the border, but what’s really nimble is the seconds dial, a”vanishingly thin” laser cut dial with a design detail which makes one revolution every 60 seconds. Behind it is a static dial using a mirror image of this next dial’s art. When the energetic dial spins against the stationary disc, it creates some remarkable psychedelic patterns you’ll probably spend more time looking in the actual time. But then again… that’s the point. To enjoy time’s motion instead of to be bound by it!

Designer: Humism

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