Karin van der Molen’s Installation Feature a Flow of Wooden Chairs Pour From Old Villas

Installation artist Karin van der Molen creates relationships between the artificial and natural through chair-based works that flow out of the windows of aging pores. In her 2015 part Flux, the Dutch artist created among her installations in the Le Rayolet from the botanical garden Domaine du Rayol. The wooden chairs delve right into a flow of shaped logs that connect the work to the neighboring gardens. The piece seems to go from solid to fluid, creating a bridge that she describes”makes us conscious of the difference involving nature and culture.” Molen creates a similar effect ‘A Wave of Nostalgia‘ which she installed in the Museum Lolland-Falster in Pederstrup, Denmark in 2014. You can view a broader range of her installations on her website.

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A Japanese Artist Crafts Portraits of Cats with Realistic Glass Eyes and Felted Wool

Japanese artist Wakuneco makes incredibly realistic portraits of feline heads, handcrafting the three-dimensional creations out of felted wool. Making such lifelike cat faces has supplied Wakuneco with quite fame on Youtube, where she uploads how-to videos that lead her audience through the process of attaching cats‘ fur to absolutely procuring each subject’s miniature whiskers. She pulls inspiration from pictures of real cats for her unique pieces, which range in breed, color, and dimensions. She’s her sculpture objects on Yahoo! Auctions, but currently only ships within Japan. You can view more of Wakuneco’s pieces on Instagram and Twitter.

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A German Artist Transforms Famous Landmarks into Dreamy Landscapes

Hamburg-based artist, traveler, and photographer Robert Jahns combines fantasy and reality with his unbelievable portfolio of digital art. Known as nois7 on Instagram, his carefully crafted compositions have amassed more than one million fans. Each captivating image is similar to something from a dream, often featuring familiar landmarks from all over the world but presented with a surreal fairytale twist.

Believing that emotion is the central facet of his work, Jahns intends to evoke the very same feelings in the audience as he sensed himself when out shooting with his camera.

He explains,”I feel that an image must make you feel something. An image must tell a story. I wish to make you feel the very same things I felt when I was in the moment.”

As well as using his photographs out of his experiences, Jahns collaborates with other renowned Instagrammers and photographers from all over the world. He then goes back into his studio in which he uses digital applications to edit and combine photos into otherworldly scenes.

 

Recurring elements include glittering strings of lights that wrap round woods trees and shining landscapes that float across mirror-like lakes.

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An Italian Design Studio Create Furniture from Eroded Travertine Encased in Resin

Italian design studio Alcarol has teamed up with Tuscan rock company Vaselli to make a table and stools created of eroded Travertine encased in resin.

Presented at BSPK, a furniture gallery curated by Nicola Gallizia, throughout Milan design week, the table and stools are manufactured from Rapolano Travertine — a kind of sedimentary rock which has been bandied around Siena, in Tuscany, for centuries.

Alcarol and Vaselli took blocks of this eroded travertine stone and cast them in transparent resin. The resin that strengthens and keeps the stone’s cavities is then polished to create perfectly angled blocks and slabs.

Fixed onto a burnished steel base, a slab of Travertine that fades into clear resin creates a low table, while the blocks of stone and resin are cut into ideal cuboids to design the stools.

The designers stated that clear resin was chosen as it resembles the water where these stones lay submerged through various eras.

 

Travertine, which can be white, tan, cream colored, and even rusty is a terrestrial sedimentary rock with a crystalline-texture.

For centuries it has been quarried from the Italian town of Rapolano, which is known for its hot springs where the Romans used to shoot thermal baths.

The stone is formed by the precipitation of carbonate minerals, frequently at the mouth of a hot spring or in a limestone cave, and its porosity is a result of the existence of organisms like macrophytes, bryophytes, and algae.

It’s been utilized as a construction material as the period of the Etruscans around 800 BC.

The travertine bits are the newest in a lengthy set of resin furniture created by the Italian design studio based on precisely the same idea.

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