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F5: Paper Artist Zoe Bradley Shares a Go-To Pen, Favorite Liqueur + More

Design Milk

“I aim to create a truly unique hand-crafted product from paper that celebrates the beautiful, unique architectural forms of nature,” said Wales-based paper artist Zoe Bradley. My challenge is always to create something unexpected and playful from a 2D sheet of paper into a magical 3D sculpture.”

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Xenobia Bailey Envisions a Distinctly African American Aesthetic One Crochet Stitch at a Time

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Wall works and standalone sculptures incorporate the artist’s signature use of crochet into vibrant, sometimes psychedelic compositions that pulse with whorling patterns and color. Many of these craft traditions revolve around textiles like weaving and sewing, often forming elaborate quilts.

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5 Projects that Capture the Brilliance of Vancouver Architect Peter Cardew

Azure Magazine

Pavilion at Expo 86, the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, and the Reigning Champ stores in Vancouver, Los Angeles and Toronto. A post-modern complex with hints of sculptural brutalism, the angular 20-storey glass office tower sits atop a simple brick base; an adjoining pool and waterfall animate the public realm.

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60,000 Bees Recreate the Nefertiti Bust and Other Classic Sculptures in Wax with Artist Tomáš Libertíny

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Tomáš Libertíny prefers to collaborate when recreating iconic busts and sculptures, although his chosen partners don’t join him in the studio. Encased in honeycomb, the resulting sculptures generate a dialogue between the newly produced organic material and art historical subject matter. via designboom ).

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A Vibrant Coral Ecosystem of Thousands of Crocheted Sculptures Confronts the Climate Crisis

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The Australia-born, California-based sisters began the Crochet Coral Reef project in 2005 to confront the devastations of bleaching, over – fishing, tourism, and agricultura l contaminations through sprawling, labor-intensive environments. Photo courtesy of LUAG by Stephanie Veto.

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‘Imagining the Future’ Honors Aleksandra Kasuba’s Trailblazing Installations and Environments

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From immersive fabric installations and sculptures to photography, landscape design, and architecture, the work of Aleksandra Kasuba (1923-2019) merges myriad ideas about how we experience the world around us. “Shell Dwellers III” (1989), paper and collage, 35 43.5 centimeters. In the U.S.,