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]]>Romanowska is a ceramic artist from Wisconsin, whose quirky masks attracted over 100,000 Instagram followers to her Instagram page. She started working with clay because it reminded her of her childhood years of playing in the dirt and letting her imagination run wild, and she couldn’t imagine using any other material in her art.
“Clay moves with the maker. It’s alive and it has a spirit of its own. It’s a constant dance that demands discipline… Once the piece comes out of the bisque fire, I can no longer change its structure. I have to accept it, nurture it, and decorate it one color and texture at a time,” she told Colossal
Romanowska’s ceramic pieces take the shape of anthropomorphic masks, and her main goal is to create pieces that stick with you and really make you think. Pottery artists who specialize in masks aren’t easy to find, but she doesn’t see anything unusual in her decision to put them front and center because masks have been around since the beginning of time, chronicling cultural and historical traditions over the centuries.
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]]>The post Kaarin Staalsen is Making Us Fall in Love With Dopamine Décor appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>Staalsen has been a fan of bright and colorful things for as long as she can remember, and becoming an interior decorator with a preference for bold and bright colors is basically a part of her DNA.
“My mom is also an interior designer and she was always painting the walls of the house I grew up in different colors. She let us paint canvases with her that hung in our house, so I got a lot of my creative colorful side from her,” she wrote in one of her Instagram stories.
Her love for art spilled into her apartment as soon as she moved into her own place, and she started painting the walls in the most vibrant colors. Staalsen also has a soft spot for quirky and eclectic decorations and furniture, and she enjoys sharing her unique finds with 2.5 million followers on TikTok and 680,000 more on Instagram.
In addition to finding success with her home décor videos, Kaarin also made a splash as a crochet artist. She even sells crochet patterns on her official website, helping other aspiring crochet artists to follow in her footsteps.
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]]>The post Ian Berry Creates Captivating Artworks Using Denim appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>Berry is a world-renowned artist who creates captivating artworks, ranging from portraits to scenes of everyday urban life, using denim. At first, his works seem like elaborate blue paintings, but once approached closer, their true nature is revealed; every “brushstroke” is actually a piece of denim carefully placed on the surface.
Berry’s venture into making art with denim was influenced by street art he was exposed to in London in the 2000s. He initially started working with jeans as a side gig and got the idea to use the discarded denim to create an art piece after being in the company of artists using unusual materials.
The fascinating thing about Berry’s creations is that they are only made with the use of denim, scissors, and glue. He uses the pieces he has at his disposal and doesn’t incorporate any other material into his creative process, like bleach, paints, or dyes.
After more than 15 years working with denim, Berry became one of the most celebrated textile artists around. His works have been displayed in art galleries, museums, and public spaces across the world while finding their place in several public and private collections.
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]]>The post Yukiko Morita’s Lamps Shine a New Light on Stale Bread appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>The way Morita looks at bread changed while she worked at a bakery as a student when she realized how much unsold bread was thrown away at the end of each day. She would take it home and use it as decoration, and that was how the idea for Pampshade was born.
“This modest attempt at daily resistance changed when one evening I saw the light from the western sun illuminating a piece of bread whose white contents I had hollowed out and eaten. For a brief, inexpressible moment, it glowed beautifully within the darkened room,” she wrote on her official website.
She decided to join forces with local bakeries and buy unsold bread at the highest possible price at the end of the day. Antiseptic and mildew proofing are then used to treat the bread, as a way of keeping the mold away. From bread loaves and baguettes to toast slices and croissants, Morita’s lamps take many shapes and forms and they’re meant to warm the hearts of those around them, just like bread itself.
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]]>The post France’s Postal Service Releases Stamps That Smell Like Baguettes appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>The stamp features an artwork created by artist Stephanie Humbert-Bassett, which shows a baguette with a ribbon in the colors of the French flag. It also serves as a scratch-and-sniff sticker, releasing the comforting aroma of a freshly baked baguette when scratched.
Around 600,000 of these stamps were manufactured and will retail for $2.13 apiece. They will only be available for purchase in France, but can be used for international shipping. So, if you have a friend in France, now is a good time to tell them you want them to write you a letter or send some other type of package.
“Bearer of culture and customs, the baguette is deeply rooted in the daily practices of the French,” La Poste said in a press release. “She embodies a ritual, that of going to her bakery, a local business anchored in the regions, attracting twelve million consumers every day. The making of six billion baguettes each year confirms its iconic status in French food heritage. The baguette transcends borders to become an international icon.”
The history of baguettes isn’t entirely clear, but it is known that the bread became popular during the 18th century in France. It is made with wheat flour, water, yeast, and common salt, and its recipe is regulated by French law.
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]]>The post Sasha Vinogradova’s Insect Jewelry Designs Will Leave You Speechless appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>Vinogradova is a talented digital artist and illustrator who uses 3D and photo compositing “to explore a variety of themes like nature, sensuality, spirituality”. One of her projects that she is most famous for is designing jewelry pieces inspired by nature, mainly insects.
These pieces see Vinogradova borrowing the shapes and characteristics of butterflies, beetles, and bees, encompassing them in shiny metal and decorating them with gemstones, ornaments, and complex patterns.
When creating these astonishing jewelry designs, Vinogradova aims to make them unique but also connect them with other entries in the same series. This, according to her, represents one of the biggest challenges of the project.
“Each piece needed to look great as individual artwork, but also as a part of the series,” Vinogradova explained in a recent interview. “One of the biggest challenges was to decide on the right amount of ornaments to maintain artistic balance.”
Continue scrolling to check out more of Vinogradova’s insect jewelry designs.
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]]>The post Everyday Life Inspires Brock DeBoer’s Astonishing Porcelain Sculptures appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>DeBoer recreates everyday objects and items from pop culture, including cowboy boots, sneakers, basketballs, coolers, and much more.
According to DeBoer, he uses his “extensive knowledge of ceramic materials and processes” to bring his sculptures “a new life becoming heirlooms of the 21st century.
“By using classical motifs of cobalt patterns and true to life finishes DeBoer’s casts become suspended somewhere in the past and disguised in the present,” it states on his website.
DeBoer was born in South Dakota and currently resides in Los Angeles, California. The artist says that his Midwestern upbringing and the “ever-changing and vastly diverse landscape” of Los Angeles serve as a major influence on his work.
DeBoer received his Bachelor of Fine Arts-Ceramics degree at Kansas City Art Institute. His works have been exhibited across the United States in solo and group exhibitions while being featured in several high-profile publications like Create! Magazine and Fete Chinoise Magazine.
Continue scrolling to check out some of our favorite sculptures by DeBoer below.
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]]>The post Devon DeJardin and AllRightsReserved Team Up for an Intriguing Series of Painted Bronze Sculptures appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>DeJardin and AllRightsReserved teamed up to create a new series of painted bronze sculptures known as Guardians Alastor. The project represents a culmination of DeJardin’s artistic journey in the past five years, most of which focused on expanding on his idea of guardians, mysterious entities that take up all sorts of different forms and provide protection and encouragement in moments of need.
The Guardians Alastor sculpture will be released in a limited quantity of 20 units. Interested collectors can apply on AllRightsReserved’s official webshop, DDTStore, and the 20 buyers will be determined via a draw in June.
“What’s exciting about this project is that sculptures provide permanence by existing as tangible, three-dimensional objects that endure over time,” said DeJardin when discussing the project in a video shared on DDTStore’s official social media. “The idea of having a ‘Guardian’ figure placed in locations all across the globe, during a time of ongoing world turbulence, I hope provides some type of comfort and protection to its host.”
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]]>The post A24 Releases Deck of Playing Cards Featuring Iconic Characters from its Movies appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>The A24 Playing Cards: 10-Year Collector’s Set contains hand-painted original artworks from artist Andrea M. Smith. Among the characters included are Howard Ratner from Uncut Gems on King card, Evelyn Quan Wang from Everything Everywhere All At Once and Dani from Midsommar on Queen cards, and Chiron from Moonlight as a Jack card.
The playing cards were listed on A24’s webshop at a price of $20 but are currently sold out. However, there is a waitlist you can join in case you want to be notified when they return to stock.
A24 was founded in 2012 as a film production and film distribution company. It later ventured into television production as well and established itself as a leader in independent and arthouse movies. Its most successful movie is 2022’s Everything Everywhere All at Once, which earned $144 million internationally and won seven Academy Awards, including awards in categories for Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best Director.
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]]>The post You Can Now Recreate Hokusai’s “The Great Wave” Using LEGO appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>LEGO recently presented a new entry to its LEGO Art series, which allows users to recreate Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa. The set, which comes at a price of $99.99, consists of 1810 pieces and is envisioned as an immersive building project. When you purchase the set, you’ll get access to a soundtrack that includes interviews and stories about the artist and the artwork.
“This is a joyful and creative project for art lovers to produce their own unique dimensional piece of art,” says LEGO in the product description. “Finish the artwork with a decorative tile featuring Hokusai’s signature before you proudly display it on your wall at home or at the office.”
Hokusai created The Great Wave as a woodblock print in 1831 as part of a larger series titled Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. It is estimated that 1,000 prints were created upon the creation of the artwork, with the final number hovering around 8,000 copies. However, only around 100 survived to date.
LEGO Art series kicked off in 2020 with the set inspired by Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Diptych painting. Several other sets followed, including those dedicated to The Beatles, Star Wars, and Harry Potter.
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]]>The post Karolina Romanowska’s Masks Are the Weirdest Thing You’ll See All Day appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>Romanowska is a ceramic artist from Wisconsin, whose quirky masks attracted over 100,000 Instagram followers to her Instagram page. She started working with clay because it reminded her of her childhood years of playing in the dirt and letting her imagination run wild, and she couldn’t imagine using any other material in her art.
“Clay moves with the maker. It’s alive and it has a spirit of its own. It’s a constant dance that demands discipline… Once the piece comes out of the bisque fire, I can no longer change its structure. I have to accept it, nurture it, and decorate it one color and texture at a time,” she told Colossal
Romanowska’s ceramic pieces take the shape of anthropomorphic masks, and her main goal is to create pieces that stick with you and really make you think. Pottery artists who specialize in masks aren’t easy to find, but she doesn’t see anything unusual in her decision to put them front and center because masks have been around since the beginning of time, chronicling cultural and historical traditions over the centuries.
The post Karolina Romanowska’s Masks Are the Weirdest Thing You’ll See All Day appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>The post Kaarin Staalsen is Making Us Fall in Love With Dopamine Décor appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>Staalsen has been a fan of bright and colorful things for as long as she can remember, and becoming an interior decorator with a preference for bold and bright colors is basically a part of her DNA.
“My mom is also an interior designer and she was always painting the walls of the house I grew up in different colors. She let us paint canvases with her that hung in our house, so I got a lot of my creative colorful side from her,” she wrote in one of her Instagram stories.
Her love for art spilled into her apartment as soon as she moved into her own place, and she started painting the walls in the most vibrant colors. Staalsen also has a soft spot for quirky and eclectic decorations and furniture, and she enjoys sharing her unique finds with 2.5 million followers on TikTok and 680,000 more on Instagram.
In addition to finding success with her home décor videos, Kaarin also made a splash as a crochet artist. She even sells crochet patterns on her official website, helping other aspiring crochet artists to follow in her footsteps.
The post Kaarin Staalsen is Making Us Fall in Love With Dopamine Décor appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>The post Ian Berry Creates Captivating Artworks Using Denim appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>Berry is a world-renowned artist who creates captivating artworks, ranging from portraits to scenes of everyday urban life, using denim. At first, his works seem like elaborate blue paintings, but once approached closer, their true nature is revealed; every “brushstroke” is actually a piece of denim carefully placed on the surface.
Berry’s venture into making art with denim was influenced by street art he was exposed to in London in the 2000s. He initially started working with jeans as a side gig and got the idea to use the discarded denim to create an art piece after being in the company of artists using unusual materials.
The fascinating thing about Berry’s creations is that they are only made with the use of denim, scissors, and glue. He uses the pieces he has at his disposal and doesn’t incorporate any other material into his creative process, like bleach, paints, or dyes.
After more than 15 years working with denim, Berry became one of the most celebrated textile artists around. His works have been displayed in art galleries, museums, and public spaces across the world while finding their place in several public and private collections.
The post Ian Berry Creates Captivating Artworks Using Denim appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>The post Yukiko Morita’s Lamps Shine a New Light on Stale Bread appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>The way Morita looks at bread changed while she worked at a bakery as a student when she realized how much unsold bread was thrown away at the end of each day. She would take it home and use it as decoration, and that was how the idea for Pampshade was born.
“This modest attempt at daily resistance changed when one evening I saw the light from the western sun illuminating a piece of bread whose white contents I had hollowed out and eaten. For a brief, inexpressible moment, it glowed beautifully within the darkened room,” she wrote on her official website.
She decided to join forces with local bakeries and buy unsold bread at the highest possible price at the end of the day. Antiseptic and mildew proofing are then used to treat the bread, as a way of keeping the mold away. From bread loaves and baguettes to toast slices and croissants, Morita’s lamps take many shapes and forms and they’re meant to warm the hearts of those around them, just like bread itself.
The post Yukiko Morita’s Lamps Shine a New Light on Stale Bread appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>The post France’s Postal Service Releases Stamps That Smell Like Baguettes appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>The stamp features an artwork created by artist Stephanie Humbert-Bassett, which shows a baguette with a ribbon in the colors of the French flag. It also serves as a scratch-and-sniff sticker, releasing the comforting aroma of a freshly baked baguette when scratched.
Around 600,000 of these stamps were manufactured and will retail for $2.13 apiece. They will only be available for purchase in France, but can be used for international shipping. So, if you have a friend in France, now is a good time to tell them you want them to write you a letter or send some other type of package.
“Bearer of culture and customs, the baguette is deeply rooted in the daily practices of the French,” La Poste said in a press release. “She embodies a ritual, that of going to her bakery, a local business anchored in the regions, attracting twelve million consumers every day. The making of six billion baguettes each year confirms its iconic status in French food heritage. The baguette transcends borders to become an international icon.”
The history of baguettes isn’t entirely clear, but it is known that the bread became popular during the 18th century in France. It is made with wheat flour, water, yeast, and common salt, and its recipe is regulated by French law.
The post France’s Postal Service Releases Stamps That Smell Like Baguettes appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>The post Sasha Vinogradova’s Insect Jewelry Designs Will Leave You Speechless appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>Vinogradova is a talented digital artist and illustrator who uses 3D and photo compositing “to explore a variety of themes like nature, sensuality, spirituality”. One of her projects that she is most famous for is designing jewelry pieces inspired by nature, mainly insects.
These pieces see Vinogradova borrowing the shapes and characteristics of butterflies, beetles, and bees, encompassing them in shiny metal and decorating them with gemstones, ornaments, and complex patterns.
When creating these astonishing jewelry designs, Vinogradova aims to make them unique but also connect them with other entries in the same series. This, according to her, represents one of the biggest challenges of the project.
“Each piece needed to look great as individual artwork, but also as a part of the series,” Vinogradova explained in a recent interview. “One of the biggest challenges was to decide on the right amount of ornaments to maintain artistic balance.”
Continue scrolling to check out more of Vinogradova’s insect jewelry designs.
The post Sasha Vinogradova’s Insect Jewelry Designs Will Leave You Speechless appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>The post Everyday Life Inspires Brock DeBoer’s Astonishing Porcelain Sculptures appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>DeBoer recreates everyday objects and items from pop culture, including cowboy boots, sneakers, basketballs, coolers, and much more.
According to DeBoer, he uses his “extensive knowledge of ceramic materials and processes” to bring his sculptures “a new life becoming heirlooms of the 21st century.
“By using classical motifs of cobalt patterns and true to life finishes DeBoer’s casts become suspended somewhere in the past and disguised in the present,” it states on his website.
DeBoer was born in South Dakota and currently resides in Los Angeles, California. The artist says that his Midwestern upbringing and the “ever-changing and vastly diverse landscape” of Los Angeles serve as a major influence on his work.
DeBoer received his Bachelor of Fine Arts-Ceramics degree at Kansas City Art Institute. His works have been exhibited across the United States in solo and group exhibitions while being featured in several high-profile publications like Create! Magazine and Fete Chinoise Magazine.
Continue scrolling to check out some of our favorite sculptures by DeBoer below.
The post Everyday Life Inspires Brock DeBoer’s Astonishing Porcelain Sculptures appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>The post Devon DeJardin and AllRightsReserved Team Up for an Intriguing Series of Painted Bronze Sculptures appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>DeJardin and AllRightsReserved teamed up to create a new series of painted bronze sculptures known as Guardians Alastor. The project represents a culmination of DeJardin’s artistic journey in the past five years, most of which focused on expanding on his idea of guardians, mysterious entities that take up all sorts of different forms and provide protection and encouragement in moments of need.
The Guardians Alastor sculpture will be released in a limited quantity of 20 units. Interested collectors can apply on AllRightsReserved’s official webshop, DDTStore, and the 20 buyers will be determined via a draw in June.
“What’s exciting about this project is that sculptures provide permanence by existing as tangible, three-dimensional objects that endure over time,” said DeJardin when discussing the project in a video shared on DDTStore’s official social media. “The idea of having a ‘Guardian’ figure placed in locations all across the globe, during a time of ongoing world turbulence, I hope provides some type of comfort and protection to its host.”
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]]>The post A24 Releases Deck of Playing Cards Featuring Iconic Characters from its Movies appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>The A24 Playing Cards: 10-Year Collector’s Set contains hand-painted original artworks from artist Andrea M. Smith. Among the characters included are Howard Ratner from Uncut Gems on King card, Evelyn Quan Wang from Everything Everywhere All At Once and Dani from Midsommar on Queen cards, and Chiron from Moonlight as a Jack card.
The playing cards were listed on A24’s webshop at a price of $20 but are currently sold out. However, there is a waitlist you can join in case you want to be notified when they return to stock.
A24 was founded in 2012 as a film production and film distribution company. It later ventured into television production as well and established itself as a leader in independent and arthouse movies. Its most successful movie is 2022’s Everything Everywhere All at Once, which earned $144 million internationally and won seven Academy Awards, including awards in categories for Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best Director.
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]]>The post You Can Now Recreate Hokusai’s “The Great Wave” Using LEGO appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>LEGO recently presented a new entry to its LEGO Art series, which allows users to recreate Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa. The set, which comes at a price of $99.99, consists of 1810 pieces and is envisioned as an immersive building project. When you purchase the set, you’ll get access to a soundtrack that includes interviews and stories about the artist and the artwork.
“This is a joyful and creative project for art lovers to produce their own unique dimensional piece of art,” says LEGO in the product description. “Finish the artwork with a decorative tile featuring Hokusai’s signature before you proudly display it on your wall at home or at the office.”
Hokusai created The Great Wave as a woodblock print in 1831 as part of a larger series titled Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. It is estimated that 1,000 prints were created upon the creation of the artwork, with the final number hovering around 8,000 copies. However, only around 100 survived to date.
LEGO Art series kicked off in 2020 with the set inspired by Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Diptych painting. Several other sets followed, including those dedicated to The Beatles, Star Wars, and Harry Potter.
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