In Detail

A door in Mecca

I stumbled upon this very nice picture of this door detail on flickr. My fascination with door details in Islamic architecture started when I bought a diary few years ago, which had a similar detail of a door on its cover taken from The Mosque of Sultan Hasan in Cairo. The intricate complexity of the decorating patterns haunts me whenever I find myself standing in front of door with such delicate beauty.


The door in Sultan Hasan Mosque in Cairo

Living Fabrics

New York-based Vienna-born photographer Bela Borsodi has breathed life into product photography. His unique method transforms products from what could be called lifeless objects into fun characters that can speak out to the viewer. He works with all sorts of products, and in some cases mixes his photography with animation and caricatures. I only chose the works that I found from this website, with the theme of shaping clothes into faces and animals. To me, this is really inspiring because now I see clothes as a new medium that can be experimented with. Instead of giving away old clothes now I see them as a source for sculptures, or better yet, toys for children. For more of his work check this out.

Here are some in the wilderness:

Papers

Peter Callesen is a Danish artist who started his education in an architecture school before venturing into an arts school. His most interesting works, which have been dominating his art lately, is with white paper in different objects, paper cuts, installations and performances. As the artist's puts it:

"A large part of my work is made from A4 sheets of paper. It is probably the most common and consumed media used for carrying information today. This is why we rarely notice the actual materiality of the A4 paper. By taking away all the information and starting from scratch using the blank white A4 paper sheet for my creations, I feel I have found a material that we are all able to relate to, and at the same time the A4 paper sheet is neutral and open to fill with different meaning...

The paper cut sculptures explore the probable and magical transformation of the flat sheet of paper into figures that expand into the space surrounding them. The negative and absent 2 dimensional space left by the cut, points out the contrast to the 3 dimensional reality it creates, even though the figures still stick to their origin without the possibility of escaping. In that sense there is also an aspect of something tragic in many of the cuts."

I really enjoy the beauty in the different scales that these works take on. As well as the variations in the complexities of the cuts; where some works consist of a simple shape cut, others are far more complicated than that. I leave you with pictures of some of his works.





White Hand, 2007 (A4)



Traces in Snow, 2005 (A4)



The Impossible Meeting, 2005 (A4)




Nature's Maze, 2005


My God, My God, 2009 ( Framed A4)


The Core of Everything, 2006


The Roots of Heaven, 2009

Rolling Bridge

Designed by Heatherwick Studio, this rolling bridge (2005 British Structural Steel Award Winner)is located within a new residential, office and retail quarter set around part of the Grand Union Canal in Paddington Basin, London.

12 meters long, the bridge is made in 8 steel and timber sections, and is made to curl by hydraulic rams set into the handrail between each section.

Candletime

Designed by Jim Termeer, this candle is the perfect coffee table game for "a circumstance to waste time"... for example when there is a blackout its a good way to keep track of time and manipulate it as well. Its "a a set of cardholders (made of thin gold or silver sheets) that, depending on which candles are lit, can also display numbers..."