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Japanese artist En Iwamura's fanciful sculptures are a holiday for the mind

Creative Boom

Japanese artist En Iwamura 's response invokes a sense of lively and wondrous innocence with his paintings, sculptures, and installations, which take the viewer on something approaching a holiday for the mind.

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UAL student Shihui Li highlights animal extinction through sugar-spun folk art

Creative Boom

After that period, as techniques improved and the practice became more popular, folk artists combined the moulded sugar with other art forms, such as shadow play and paper cutting, to create a more diverse range of patterns. Over generations, sacred sculptures morphed into secular sweets as sugar became more affordable.

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The Creative Boom 2023 Christmas gift guide for creatives

Creative Boom

We've got a selection of quirky and beautiful gift ideas that will raise your present-buying above the generic and propel your imagination. Because all of us love the idea of buying presents in theory – 'tis better to give than to receive, as they say – in practice, we often struggle to devote enough time to it.

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Organic Features and Textures Cloak Carol Long’s Sculptures in Natural Embellishments

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Long then uses slip trailing and an elaborate glazing process to add a staggering amount of embellishment to the amorphous sculptures, mimicking the patterns, textures, and colors found throughout the natural world.

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Stunning artworks set in an ancient Arabian desert explore ideas of mirage and oasis

Creative Boom

Dana Awartani's sculpture draws inspiration from the vernacular architecture of AlUla, taking the form of a concave geometric sculpture that references the Nabataean tombs and mimics the shapes of surrounding mountains, gorges, caverns and rock formations.

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Thousands of Brushstrokes: Antonio Santín’s New Rug Paintings

Design Milk

This month in New York, artist Antonio Santín presents shockingly hyperreal oil paintings that depict life-size undulating ornate rugs. Thousands of paint dots mimic the warp and weave of intricate patterns while longer extrusions of paint perfectly impersonate knots and fringes on each side.

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Shattered Porcelain Fragments Are Elegantly Bonded in Kintsugi Sculptures by Yeesookyung

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Seoul-based artist Yeesookyung ( previously ) fuses Korean and Japanese craft traditions in her elegant, gilded sculptures. Blending ornately patterned vessels with deities and animals, the delicate assemblages meld shards of discarded ceramic into new forms with bulbous sides, halved figures, and drips of metallic epoxy.

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