BEAUTY: Sculpture--Mihoko Ogaki

Japanese conceptual artist Mihoko Ogaki's series "Milky Ways--Breath" features fibre-reinforced plastic figures of dying or dead people with entire galaxies or even universes inside them. Small holes in the surface of the figure allow star maps to be projected onto the surrounding walls. This simple yet profound image is breathtaking in its scope of meaning. The pieces are rife with the ideas of cycles, transformation, transmogrification, macro and micro, and our connection and place in the reality around us.

http://www.mihoko-ogaki.com/index.html

I am sure I have posted these images before, but here they are again because they are so relevant to the art of Ogaki.

BEAUTY: Art--David Fullarton

The art of San Francisco resident David Fullarton looks like collage doodles or graffiti but upon closer inspection, it is easy to see that a lot of thought goes into what the piece is going to say and exactly how it will be said. There is a lot of humor and a lot of bald truth as well.

Top to bottom: And I Say To Myself, What A Wonderful World; Apology #22; Character Flaw; Consider Yourself Warned; The End Of Civilization; Too Much Is Never Enough; We're Up We're Down; When Only The Best Will Do

http://www.davidfullarton.com/