Art + Installations

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Cosmic Slicks
Head over to Beneath the Surface Blog to view Finnish photographer, Juha Tanhua’s, galactic themed photographic experiments of water and gasoline puddles right under our feet. Tanhua uses a simple under-exposure technique to transform the images into night sky themes. #photography “It’s not space above us; it’s space under our feet” #JuhaTanhua #Finnland #Finnish #lighting #space #celestiallight #expectnothinggeteverything #water
Rocky Scenes
Head over to our Beneath the Surface Blog to view Japanese photographer, Yasuto Inagaki’s photo series that captures scenes of natural rock formation. These rock formations are an automatic focal point against the horizon, and Inagaki will often travel to the same location to capture it in various light, weather, and scenery. #photography #naturalstone #rockformation #landscapephotography #YasutoInagaki #Japan #TateyamaMountainRange #lighting #lightingdesign
Brick Stream
Head over to Beneath the Surface Blog to learn about a project featuring Farhad Mirzaie’s interpretation of parametric design. See how Mirzaie was able to construct the wave, hard edges of individual bricks protrude and interlace in a pattern that also acts as a layer of privacy from external eyes on the exterior of this apartment building. #ArakIran #Iran #FarhadMirzaie #brick #backlit #backlitfacade #architecture #design #parametricdesign #trend #contemporary
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Head over to Beneath the Surface Blog to discover some intricate paper sculptures of ancient architectural wonders by Denmark-based artist Peter Callesen. These replications completed in simple sheets of paper are meticulously put together and showcase great detail in such a miniature installation. #papersculptures #art #Denmark #PeterCallesen #artist #architecture #ancient #ancientarchitecture
Moonlit Mountain
Head over to Beneath the Surface Blog to learn about “Hometown Moon” a project by San Architects. This Thursday was are saluting this beautifully illuminated half-circle structure decorating the natural landscape of China’s Mount Tai. #moonlitmountain #China #MountTai #orb #light #lightingdesign #SanArchitects #chapel #landscapes #illluminated
Light My Way Home
Head over to our Beneath the Surface Blog to learn more about GiGi Chen’s newest series of neon light paintings. Each portrait is inspired by Chen’s own life experience as a first generation immigrant to New York from China. We salute both the life story and imagination behind Chen’s neon bird paintings. #artist #paintings #painter #GiGiChen #NewYork #China #AntlerGallery #Portland #neon #bird #light
Third Rock from the Sun
Head over to our Beneath the Surface Blog to learn more about director, cinematographer, and visual artist Clemens Wirth’s animated virtual adventure celebrating worldly terrains on the Earth’s surface. See how he annimates a series of short movies titled Miniature Landscape. #thirdrockfromthesun #stone #earth #video #animation #shortclips #ClemensWirth #rockysurfaces #surfaces #miniature
Light Beams
Head over to our Beneath the Surface Blog to learn about this interactive installation titled “Medusa” a collaborative installation completed by architect, Sou Fujimoto, and tech developer, Tin Drum. This innovative work pays tribute to the inherent natural beauty of light in both artificial construction and natural refraction. #SouFujimoto #TinDrum #victoriaandalbertmuseum #interactiveinstallation #London #light #lightbeams
Melting Stone
Head over to our Beneath the Surface Blog to see the beauty this landscape photographer captures in a chase for the perfect shot. Learn how photographer, Jan Eric Waider pursues intense landscape across the globe. His most recent series titled LAVA captures the shapes of melted stone #lava #stone #landscapephotography #photography #JanEricWaider #Iceland #Natthagi #Fagradalsfjall
Composition Composers
Head over to out beneath the surface blog to learn more about Anna Devis’s and Daniel Rueda’s composition skills and commitment to joyful minimalism through photographs. Take a look into how they merge creative concepts and real-world settings seamlessly in their ongoing portrait collaborations. #photopgraphy #color #design #art #surface # creative #concept #portrait #settings #photo
Light, Glass + Water
Head over to Beneath the Surface Blog to learn about photographer, Suzanne Saroff’s use of natural light and glass to distort carefully curated floral arrangements. As beams of light travel through the water-filled glasses, they slow down and change direction slightly, “bending” the imprint on both the eye and camera sensor. #photography #glass #water #light #lightingdesign #glassgesign #distortion #naturallight #bending #bendinglight
Folding Pillars of Stone
Head over to Beneath the Surface Blog to learn about American photographer and how he captures a natural stone arrangement in Utah titled Draped Stone. Zac Henderson captures images of modern sandstone structures or hoodoos — groups of enigmatic figures wrapped up in motionless soft ripples. #naturalstone #drapedstone #hoodoos #utah #ZacHenderson #sandstone
What's your angle?
Head over to Beneath the Surface Blog to learn about this abstract interior installation and how it creates prismatic depth illusions. The installation titled, Open Square, is painted with clean, angular blocks of color and LED lights flash across the rooms, distorting their boundaries that emerge and fade over time. #LEDlighting #LED #angles #artinstallation #installation #art #color #flash
Limestone Wonders
Head over to Beneath the Surface Blog to learn about Alexander Ladanivskyy captures “the perfect shot” of the limestone wonders in Jordan and Nepal. The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt was shot from above to pull away from the generic shot of this historic landmark. #pyramid #photography #limestone #stone #PyramidofGiza #Egypt #Giza #pyramidion #gold #ancient #landmark
Festering Stone
Head over to Beneath the Surface Blog to learn about how New York-based artist, Kathleen Ryan, has a talent for finding beauty in uncommon places. Especially apparent in her latest sculpture work — a series of oversized fruit sculptures encrusted in mold and fungal decay using beautiful, illustrious materials like precious and semi-precious gemstones #stone #stoneart #KathleenRyan #fruit #fungus #festering #preciousgemstone #semipreciousgemstone #preciousstone #semipreciousstone #newyork