A Japanese Artist Creates Realistic Culinary Embroideries

Japanese embroidery artist Ipnot creates bits of food and drinks that seem to leap off of the fabric and into existence. Ipnot enhances the desire of her embroideries by staging them using their real-life inspirations and surroundings, like heaps of rice in a bowl, and pieces of stollen crumbling off a small fork. Ipnot shares her website that her grandmother’s embroidery practice inspired her to begin, and she utilizes the thread and needle similarly to the painting technique of stippling. You can view more of this artist’s delicate embroideries on Instagram.

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A Norwegian Artist Explores Claustrophobia Through Paintings of Ornate Clothing

In his latest series of oil paintings titled ‘Body Cage’, Norwegian painter and illustrator Audun Grimstad plays with elements of style design — elaborate garments, lush spaces, bold color — to make abstract structures that research “issues of feeling trapped within the facades we construct around our identities.”

“The paintings hint at narratives concerning the human condition, in which the opposites expect and sorrow are fundamental topics,” Audun told Creative Boom.

Originally from Tromsø, at the north of Norway, Audun graduated from School of Visual Arts in New York City in 2017. Following graduation, he had two artist-in-residence programmes at Mana Contemporary in New Jersey.

His works are represented by galleries both in the United States and Norway.

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A Japanese Artist Creates Realistic Looking Fish with Resin and Acrylic Paint

Riusuke Fukahori has always admired the appearance of goldfish, immortalizing realistic depictions of fish in layers of acrylic and resin. Previously Fukahori has focused on paintings of goldfish moving inside of Japanese household items such as bamboo hats, wooden sake cups, and handmade bowls. For his newest Irobukuro show his inspiration has been turned to imitate the vessels and scenery of Mong Kok’s Goldfish Market at Hong Kong, in which rows of colorful fish line stall after stall. For the included functions he molds resin to resemble plastic bags filled with water. Rather than realistically depicting the in-depth scales, eyes, and fins of the fish Fukahori paints abstractly to catch the way the goldfish glide through the water.

These works, together with some of his traditionally painted pieces in memory-laden items are included in his next solo exhibition with Joshua Liner Gallery in New York City, titled Goldfish Blossoms.

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A Danish Florist Created Dazzling Botanical Animations For Hanami 2050

For the Hanami 2050 exhibition at Fukuoka, Japan, Danish floral designer Nicolai Bergmann collaborated with the Tokyo-based design firm Onesal to create a collection impressive botanical cartoons. The works were made under the concept of “prospective flowers,” and research creations from deep within the designers’ imaginations. Fantastical and brightly colored buds burst into blossom with a satisfying crack and sizzle, introducing structures that appear as a cross between a botanical garden and aliens woods.

The looping presentations were displayed on screens embedded in real foliage arranged by Bergmann and appeared to live at the historic Shinto shrine Dazaifu Tenmangu (太宰府天満宮) from March 29 to April 1, 2018. You can view a movie, and several clips, from the current installment below.

h/t thisiscolossal

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An Impressive Installation By Rikato Nagashima: “Human Nature”

Artist Rikato Nagashima Made the Installment entitled Human Character, a tribute to Anish Kapoor, a British Performer.

This work was exhibited in the Eye of Gyre Gallery, a construction in Tokyo, and then transferred to a traditional practice that was turned into an art gallery. And it must be said that the work is bluffing.

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These Adorable Toasts By Japanese Food Stylist Eiko Mori Are Too Cute To Eat

Everyone knows that breakfast is the most important meal of the day–nobody more so than Japanese meals celebrity Eiko Mori, who uses toast as her canvas.

Mori began making toast art just earlier this year and has since fallen in love with the process. Using a toothpick, a spoon, and a mini piping bag made from parchment paper as her gear, she creates magical patterned themes on shoku-pan, a Japanese-style milk bread. The vibrant elements pop against a spread of homemade sour cream.

Each design may be time-consuming and fiddly; a few were made by putting individual sesame seeds in time with a set of tweezers. It is well worth it though, as Mori’s work has since become an online sensation. On Instagram, her 17,000+ followers are treated to a feast of cute creations.

Japanese food stylist Eiko Mori creates toast art that looks too cute to eat.

h/t this isn’t happiness

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