Handy Dandy

Artist Regine Ramseier successfully transported 2,000 un-puffed dandelion plants from the fields into a building and then suspended them one by one, creating an installation that is quite sublime. Apparently the flowers were first treated with a gentle adhesive before being placed in a special palette Ramseier designed to fit in the back of her car. After transport the entire palette system was moved into the room and the flowers were removed and hung one by one.

Gabriel Dawe - Threads of Art

Mexican-Canadian artist Gabriel Dawe debuted his Plexus installation at the Dallas Contemporary.  This art instillation is made of colorful gütermann thread, wood, and nails, and is inspired by the color and culture he was surrounded by at an early age growing up in Mexico. Dawe’s work has been exhibited in Dallas, Houston, Montreal, Toronto and Barcelona.

Oskar's Kaleidoscope

Polish designer Oskar Zieta challenges his audience with a new perspective: 'Reflections' is a kaleidoscope that has the ability to enlarge our possibilities of looking at objects while exposing the mystery of vision and understanding. The kaleidoscopic boxes in the show are small architectural constructions that allow the viewer to play with large size tools that reflect the objects in their inside and reveal a whole 'Alice in Wonderland' world behind them - albeit in black and white.

Healy & Cordeiro : Hoard (2006)

Healy & Cordeiro : Not Under My Roof (2008)

Installation, 2008, Found flooring from farm house (wood, linoleum, carpet)
Site-specific work for ‘Contemporary Australia: Optimism’, GoMA Queensland. Photograph by the artists.

Healy & Cordeiro : Self Storage (2006)

Healy & Cordeiro : The Paper Trail (2007)

Healy & Cordeiro: Life Span (2009)

Healy & Cordeiro: Past Times

Louise Bourgeois: Single I, Single II, The Couple II (1996)

Oh, the Places You'll Go....

Knitted Trees installation in Pioneer Square Washington by Suzanne Tidwell, an artist from Sammamish, WA has turned this corner into the setting of a Dr. Seuss book and it looks whimsically enticing!

Burn brightly all you tree huggers out there, Pete

Waste Not

The artist Song Dong, one of the most inventive figures in contemporary Chinese art, has turned the contents of his mother’s former home in Beijing, which was also his childhood home, into the installation titled “Waste Not“. These are all everyday life objects collected by Song Dong’s mother over the span of fifty years – clothes, books, kitchen utensils, toiletries, school supplies, shopping bags, rice bowls…

Burn brightly, Pete

Sometimes the Simplest idea....

.... can produce stunning results. These images are of  an installation that suspended 10,000 garments, on washing lines to create a dragon-like form at the Shenzhen Biennale (2009) for American Apparel. You can see a brilliant and eye-popping video of the installation in magnificently rich colour at this link.

Burn brightly, Pete