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A Czech Architect Designed Pavilion as An Homage To Greek Philosopher

The enchanting northern Italian dolomite valley of Val Gardena is the site of the 6th annual Gherdeina Biennale, a party language, themes composing the mountains‘ Architect Jiri Prihoda was invited to engage with the plan of a pavilion of poetry. Together with its architectural and sculptural qualities, the pavilion acts as a site for poetry and performative readings. Val Gardena is known for its famous skilled carpenters who, since the 16th century provided the whole of Catholic Europe with religious wooden carved figurative sculptures. The valley winds across the Sasso lunge mountain, which draws attention to its dominating ridge-line at any given minute one sees it on the horizon.

It’s assembled using locally sourced wood and was constructed by its regional carpenters with expressed structural qualities. At night, the only light source is that the glowing corralit stone that makes up a section of the barrel roof. Prihoda initially employed this artificial stone in the 2013 firefly dwelling. The longitudinal axis of the barrel is directly aligned with the Sasso lunge mountain, offering visitors a framed view of its Royal picture while moving through the distance of the object.

That the pavilion is situated in an archeological dig site at the summit of Col de Flam. Here, local artist Gregor Prugger narrated the story of himself as a young boy digging in this particular spot for shards of ceramics from that period. Poet Alessandro Francesco held a reading during the opening days of this Biennale. Diogene’s barrel is surrounded by a mountain route that winds upwards toward st. jacob’s church built in the 13th century. Following the closing of this Biennale that the pavilion will remain as a permanent artwork, open to public use by both Val Gardena visitors and residents.

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A Photographer Captures Drones as Aerial Light Source Illuminating Mountainous Landscapes

Photographer Reuben Wu creates pictures that show an alien splendor in natural and human-made landscapes across the world. Before he has photographed the bright blue rivers of molten sulfur in Indonesian volcanoes and snapped the thousands of glistening mirrors that make Nevada’s SolarReserve. For his continuing series Lux Noctis, the Chicago-based photographer utilizes modified drones as aerial lighting resources, illuminating vague landscapes in a means which makes every appear new and unexplored.

Recently Wu has developed his process of working with the drones to form light paths over topographical peaks from the mountainous terrain. “I view it as a sort of zero traces’ version of property art where the surroundings remain untouched by the artist, and in precisely the same time is introduced in a sublime way which speaks to 19th-century Romantic painting and science and literary imagery,” said Wu to Colossal.

The light from his GPS-enabled drones makes a halo effect around some of the introduced cliffs and crests when photographed using a prolonged exposure. An elegant circle of light traces the flight of this drone, leaving a mark only perceptible in the resulting photograph. You can see more of Wu’s landscape photography on his Instagram and Facebook.

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A Photographer Captures Magnificent Landscapes from His 12-day Road Trip

Three years into his photography journey, Michael T. Meyers has built up his strategies and spent the last year traveling across the USA and abroad. This has pushed him to experimentation shooting under different states, along with his growth as a photographer in this brief period is astonishing.

A whole lot has changed for Meyers because we featured his photographs nearly one year ago. “I believe I’ve grown a lot as a photographer, and my social media following has reflected that,” Meyers told to My My Modern Met, “going from around 10k to almost 70k followers on Instagram since your post.” Now, an increasing number of followers flock to see Meyers’ photographs, many taken from two unforgettable excursions he took in the past year–a 12-day street trip around a few of America’s most famous natural landscapes and a trip to Cuba.

Both excursions provided fertile ground for Meyers to experiment, as he further honed his skill in capturing the light and color of every landscape. From long-exposure night photos of this desert into the warm island setting of Cuba, Meyers’ expansion as a storyteller is evident in his new job. And, during his US road trip, he understood he did not necessarily need to travel far to find some unique landscapes to photograph.

“I heard a ton about shooting in various varieties of conditions and much more importantly found first hand just how beautiful this country is. Everyone always seems like they’re in a hurry to leave and traveling abroad to see such amazing places–and for a good reason–there are tons of these in other countries. But there are also some fairly amazing spots here at home too. And it’s amazing how many different types of climates, ecosystems, and landscapes we have and how desperate they all are from each other.”

 

Instead, Cuba provided a compelling contrast to that which Meyers was utilized to and demonstrated how the power of a camera might lead to some unique encounters with locals. “I was taking a photo of an old automobile (since I did about a million times within the five days I was there) and an older man walked from his house and started speaking with me,” Meyers remembers. “I told him that I had been a photographer and he encouraged my girlfriend and me in my house to show us a photograph he had of his son along with Castro. From a photography standpoint, it is second to none. There is another place on the planet that could be confused for Havana.”

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Discover the Dolomites Through an Infrared Lens of Paolo Pettigiani

The Beatles‘ dreamlike ‘tangerine trees and marmalade skies’ look surreally close to reality in these infrared images by Italian photographer Paolo Pettigiani. Shot around the Dolomites mountain range from Italy, the photos ‘show something that is widely familiar to your eye, under a new and unexpected perspective.’

Trees turn a punchy pink, and blue skies are dramatized through the photographer‘s infrared lens. ‘after three decades of arts and design classes at Politecnico at Turin, these shots have awakened my need to use color to distort reality,’ Pettigiani says. ‘This project, for instance, was taken with a Nikon D750, converting full-spectrum, to learn more about the light’s spectrum emanated from plants. A spark which lies just beyond the beam visible to guys.’

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An Artist Reimagines the Vibrant Beauty of Canadian Mountains as Low-Poly Art

Vancouver-based artist Elyse Dodge reimagines Canadian mountain ranges as abstract landscapes made of colorful geometric shapes. Inspired by British Columbia‘s incredible beauty, Dodge shows she intends to “catch the beauty of the landscapes that we call home” Using a bold color palette, the artist modern landscape paintings explore the contrast between soft and hard by highlighting the varied shapes found in nature. Cliffs, hills, and peaks rendered with sharp picture lines are juxtaposed from the natural, soft textures of the trees.

Taking benefit of social networking, Dodge utilizes Instagram to locate and partner with landscape photographers. After sourcing her reference pictures, Dodge then uses her previous experience in graphic design to make digital mock-ups. Once she’s happy with the geometric transformation, she starts to paint each candy-colored triangle onto her canvas.

Dodge explains, “The polygonal shapes change the peaks out of being something that’s recognizable as a hill into a faceted, diamond-like form. These surreal scenes encourage the mind to imagine what a different and much more vivid world could look like.”

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