His real webs are available for purchase on his website. Since Fiore is an arachnophile, each one comes with a label showing a photo of the species and genus that produced the web.
http://www.whirledwidewebs.com
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Showing posts with label glass. Show all posts
Thursday, January 3, 2013
BEAUTY: Art--Emil "Rocky" Fiore
Former stained-glass artist Emil "Rocky" Fiore has created quite a niche for himself. He collects real spider webs, sprays them with a silver aluminum, and mounts them on beveled glass with a black background, so the silver webs stand out.
His real webs are available for purchase on his website. Since Fiore is an arachnophile, each one comes with a label showing a photo of the species and genus that produced the web.
http://www.whirledwidewebs.com
His real webs are available for purchase on his website. Since Fiore is an arachnophile, each one comes with a label showing a photo of the species and genus that produced the web.
http://www.whirledwidewebs.com
Thursday, October 25, 2012
BEAUTY: Art--Angela Palmer
Melding art with the medical sciences, artist Angela Palmer employs the results of CT and MRI scans to create compelling, haunting works of art. She etches the contours of soft tissue and bone onto glass plates and assembles them to mimic 3D images of the scans. She has used herself as a model for a series of self portraits but recently used the scans of author Robert Harris to create a 3D image of his skull and brain.
Palmer also created a very touching body of work based on a child mummy on display at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. She writes of this project on her website:
"Another recent project involved a 2000-year-old Egyptian child mummy in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Little was known of the child, who was presented to the museum in 1888 after being removed from its burial site in the Faiyum in Egypt by the archaeologist Flinders Petrie. In order to recreate the child without disturbing its bandages, I organized for the child to undergo over 2,500 CT scans at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. These were performed by one of the world’s leading radiologists, Dr Stephen Golding and his team. The doctors revealed the child to be a boy and declared pneumonia as the probable cause of death due to a thickening of his lung...
The recreation of the child on 111 sheets of glass was unveiled as part of the Ashmolean’s permanent collection when it recently reopened its new Egyptian Galleries. The glass sculpture lies in a special case next to the actual boy himself.
An exhibition of my work associated with this project can also be seen in the Ashmolean’s Cast Gallery until March 4 next year [note: 3/4/12...exhibition is closed]. This includes a film made during my visit to the child’s burial site in the Faiyum in Egypt; casts I commissioned of the child’s skull and his toes; linen bales dyed using ancient methods particular to the Faiyum; and sand I brought in my water bottle to ‘reunite’ the child with his homeland."
http://www.angelaspalmer.com/
Palmer also created a very touching body of work based on a child mummy on display at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. She writes of this project on her website:
"Another recent project involved a 2000-year-old Egyptian child mummy in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Little was known of the child, who was presented to the museum in 1888 after being removed from its burial site in the Faiyum in Egypt by the archaeologist Flinders Petrie. In order to recreate the child without disturbing its bandages, I organized for the child to undergo over 2,500 CT scans at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. These were performed by one of the world’s leading radiologists, Dr Stephen Golding and his team. The doctors revealed the child to be a boy and declared pneumonia as the probable cause of death due to a thickening of his lung...
The recreation of the child on 111 sheets of glass was unveiled as part of the Ashmolean’s permanent collection when it recently reopened its new Egyptian Galleries. The glass sculpture lies in a special case next to the actual boy himself.
An exhibition of my work associated with this project can also be seen in the Ashmolean’s Cast Gallery until March 4 next year [note: 3/4/12...exhibition is closed]. This includes a film made during my visit to the child’s burial site in the Faiyum in Egypt; casts I commissioned of the child’s skull and his toes; linen bales dyed using ancient methods particular to the Faiyum; and sand I brought in my water bottle to ‘reunite’ the child with his homeland."
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
BEAUTY: Architecture--Wayfarers Chapel
Designed by Lloyd Wright, son of legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and built in 1951, The Wayfarers Chapel located in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, is a miracle of engineering. Comprised of precious few redwood beams and a tremendous amount of glass, Lloyd Wright called his design a "tree chapel."
When construction was complete, it was just a building on a dusty hill, surrounded by saplings. But Lloyd Wright said, “When the trees that surround the Chapel grow up, they will become the framework, become a part of the tree forms and branches that inevitably arise from the growing trees adjacent to it. I used the glass so that the natural growth, the sky, and sea beyond became the definition of their environment.” Now, the chapel does indeed blend in with the grove of redwoods that surrounds it. It is a stunning sight, and an important part of the lineage of the history of architecture.
On a personal note, I had a dream some time in 1981, where I walked into a church that looked almost identical to the Wayfarers Chapel to see my grandfather who had died nearly a decade earlier. At the time of this dream, I had never seen the structure and did not know of its existence. I can still see it clearly in my memory of the dream, and it was astonishingly beautiful, even ethereal, because of the part of the church that was not there--the walls--as well as for the seamless link to the surrounding trees and sky.
http://www.wayfarerschapel.org/
When construction was complete, it was just a building on a dusty hill, surrounded by saplings. But Lloyd Wright said, “When the trees that surround the Chapel grow up, they will become the framework, become a part of the tree forms and branches that inevitably arise from the growing trees adjacent to it. I used the glass so that the natural growth, the sky, and sea beyond became the definition of their environment.” Now, the chapel does indeed blend in with the grove of redwoods that surrounds it. It is a stunning sight, and an important part of the lineage of the history of architecture.
Above: Frank Lloyd Wright, left, with his son Lloyd and grandson.
On a personal note, I had a dream some time in 1981, where I walked into a church that looked almost identical to the Wayfarers Chapel to see my grandfather who had died nearly a decade earlier. At the time of this dream, I had never seen the structure and did not know of its existence. I can still see it clearly in my memory of the dream, and it was astonishingly beautiful, even ethereal, because of the part of the church that was not there--the walls--as well as for the seamless link to the surrounding trees and sky.
http://www.wayfarerschapel.org/
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