Sculpture Archives - MobiSpirit MobiSpirit Tue, 18 Oct 2022 11:46:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 Artur Bordalo Uses Discarded Materials and Items to Create “Trash Animals” https://mobispirit.com/artur-bordalo-uses-discarded-materials-and-items-to-create-trash-animals/ Thu, 13 Oct 2022 08:14:00 +0000 https://mobispirit.com/?p=26157 Artur Bordalo, also known as Bordalo II, is a Portuguese artist who is best known for his series of artworks called “Trash Animals.” As part of the series, Bordalo collects discarded materials and items and then uses them to create intriguing animal sculptures. Bordalo’s “Trash Animals” pieces come in various formats. The “Big Trash Animals” […]

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]]> Artur Bordalo, also known as Bordalo II, is a Portuguese artist who is best known for his series of artworks called “Trash Animals.” As part of the series, Bordalo collects discarded materials and items and then uses them to create intriguing animal sculptures.

Bordalo’s “Trash Animals” pieces come in various formats. The “Big Trash Animals” works are built on a larger scale and almost exclusively with garbage, “aiming to provoke a different look at our consumerist habits.” According to his official website, he created close to 200 “Big Trash Animals,” and these sculptures are currently scattered all around the world.

Bordalo also creates animal-inspired artworks out of discarded material in a gallery format. They are divided into Neutral, Half Half, and Plastic Animals subseries and allow the artist to further explore his original ideas. In most cases, each of these smaller pieces uses “textured wood, reusing doors, shutters, windows, and benches of vacant buildings” as canvas, while materials and items like “plastics, electronic material, fabrics, light metals, and children’s toys” are to create the subject of the artwork.

“The smaller scale allows the use of a greater variety of materials for the composition of these works,” the artist explains.

Bordalo’s works are often exhibited in his native Portugal while also making way to Europe and the United States in the past. He also shares them on his social media. Here are our favorite ones.

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]]> Anthony James’ Installations are a Work of Sorcery https://mobispirit.com/anthony-james-installations-are-a-work-of-sorcery/ Mon, 04 Apr 2022 06:53:00 +0000 https://mobispirit.com/?p=25170 Anthony James’ art has an ethereal quality to it. Made of stainless steel, glass, and LED lights, his sculptures and installations are greater than the sum of their parts. “I’ve tried to visually demonstrate the colossally vast and the infinitesimally small,” he remarked once in an interview with Aesthetica Magazine. “The cosmos and the divinity inside […]

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]]> Anthony James’ art has an ethereal quality to it. Made of stainless steel, glass, and LED lights, his sculptures and installations are greater than the sum of their parts. “I’ve tried to visually demonstrate the colossally vast and the infinitesimally small,” he remarked once in an interview with Aesthetica Magazine. “The cosmos and the divinity inside oneself.”

Indeed, there’s a plurality in his work based on a manipulation of light and mirrors, that expresses an infinite universe, lurking behind mirror and glass. “My work is my best attempt at giving the impossible, the infinite, a physical, objective existence,” says James. “The materials are merely an extension of the gesture.”

Born in England in 1974, and now based in Los Angeles, James has studied in London at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and graduated with a degree in fine art painting. Recent sculptures include a bright nickel octahedron, a solar black dodecagon, a 2.5-meter high crystal, and a triacontahedron.

According to James, his intention is to express science, spirituality, and philosophy in an object the purest and most honest way he knows how. Using a blend of high technology and centuries-old techniques, the end results are best experienced live.

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]]> This Amazingly Looking Sushi is Actually Made of Stone https://mobispirit.com/this-amazingly-looking-sushi-is-actually-made-of-stone/ Wed, 02 Mar 2022 06:03:00 +0000 https://mobispirit.com/?p=26021 Based only on photos of his works, you could easily assume that Mari Hamahira is one very talented sushi chef. However, while he does make sushi, he’s no chef. At least, that’s not his primary profession. Hamahira is a Japanese artist who creates amazingly realistic sushi sculptures using polished stones. To make it all even […]

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]]> Based only on photos of his works, you could easily assume that Mari Hamahira is one very talented sushi chef. However, while he does make sushi, he’s no chef. At least, that’s not his primary profession.

Hamahira is a Japanese artist who creates amazingly realistic sushi sculptures using polished stones. To make it all even more impressive, the bright colors of seafood in his gunkan maki or tuna in nigiri sushi pieces are all natural. So the color you see is the color of the stone used and not a result of a paint job.

Hamahira, who is a graduate student at one of Japan’s art schools, revealed that he came up with the idea while going through a lockdown. The remote learning allowed him to invest more time into the project, and he ended up making it the centerpiece of his graduating thesis.

The sushi sculptures were mainly inspired by Hamahira’s working experience in the seafood industry and the food waste that surrounds it. He is hoping to raise awareness about the issue with this project, which is the main reason for including the more provocative sushi pieces with human body parts resting on rice instead of fish.

According to Hamahira, this part of the collection should remind us that some of the food we consume was once a living and breathing thing.

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]]> Enchanting Pottery You Need to Own if You Want to Be “In” This Fall https://mobispirit.com/enchanting-pottery-you-need-to-own-if-you-want-to-be-in-this-fall/ Fri, 29 Oct 2021 12:00:00 +0000 https://mobispirit.com/?p=25886 Milla Istomina from Mist Ceramics comes from a creative background, but it wasn’t until recent years that she started to take her artwork more seriously. What makes her artwork so special is the resourceful process that she uses to create her masterpieces. Specializing in pumpkin-themed pieces, her enchanting pottery puts will put the “awe” in […]

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]]> Milla Istomina from Mist Ceramics comes from a creative background, but it wasn’t until recent years that she started to take her artwork more seriously. What makes her artwork so special is the resourceful process that she uses to create her masterpieces. Specializing in pumpkin-themed pieces, her enchanting pottery puts will put the “awe” in autumn.

Her mother encouraged Milla to create fun and unusual things. However, her first encounter with sculpting happened in her earliest childhood when she picked up clay on a riverbank.

“My first experiments sculpting involved modeling clay or clay we picked up on a riverbank. The latter was an absolute delight to work with; although I could not fire it in the kiln, I could dry it in the sun and paint using gouache paints,” she shared in an interview for VoyageLa. She added that in 2018, she decided she would treat herself to a wheel-throwing class. And little to say it was love at first touch.

When in 2020 she lost her full-time job, Istomina decided to grab her handmade stuff out of the boxes, photograph them, and share her beautiful and unique pottery work on Etsy.

“I am more comfortable making my tableware on the potter’s wheel, while some pieces are exclusively hand-built. Etching, sgraffito, and underglaze painting are some of my favorite decorative techniques,” she added.

If you are interested in her creations, you can contact her on Etsy or make a commission, she loves creating new stuff.

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]]> Terry Cook Will Inspire You To Get Creative With His Out-Of-The-Box Projects https://mobispirit.com/terry-cook-will-inspire-you-to-get-creative-with-his-out-of-the-box-projects/ Mon, 21 Dec 2020 15:33:46 +0000 https://mobispirit.com/?p=25289 If there’s a silver lining to COVID-19, it’s the return of hobbies. Being homebound means reintroducing ourselves to pastimes like baking and knitting—and Terry Cook has been doing just that. A self-proclaimed tinkerer and doodler, his hands are often busy with something: anything from the more traditional watercolor, acrylics, and inks, to the more experimental robotics […]

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]]> If there’s a silver lining to COVID-19, it’s the return of hobbies. Being homebound means reintroducing ourselves to pastimes like baking and knitting—and Terry Cook has been doing just that.

A self-proclaimed tinkerer and doodler, his hands are often busy with something: anything from the more traditional watercolor, acrylics, and inks, to the more experimental robotics and high voltage items. And then there’s also his experimentation with balloons.

Using balloons as sculptural material, he recreates humans and birds. “I am obsessed with birds (Mostly British and European) and have been since I was a child,” writes Cook on his website. His balloon heads came later, taking inspiration from the material itself.

“I thought it would be cool to use the creases that form naturally on the balloon surface as the latex begins to degrade and lose its form,” he writes. “I made heads and then photographed them over a period of weeks as they began to deflate. Some went quicker than others.”

Other creative endeavors are more traditional, and include illustration and paintings. “I paint whatever I like,” writes Cook on his website, “but usually things relating to my hobbies and interests. I have also painted things relating to pop culture icons even though I have little interest in them, purely for the joy of painting!”

His other interests include animals, insects, physics and biology, robotics, automatons, and magic tricks. His Instagram page is worth following for its experimental quality alone. He might just inspire you to get your hands dirty…

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]]> Out of Place, Out of Time: Jasmine Little’s Unique Sculptures https://mobispirit.com/out-of-place-out-of-time-jasmine-littles-unique-sculptures/ Mon, 16 Nov 2020 15:59:00 +0000 https://mobispirit.com/?p=25247 Jasmine Little creates stoneware vessels that channel ancient sculpting in imagined civilizations. Her creations highlight the constant tension between personal history and historical tradition. Born in Portsmouth, Virginia, Little trained at Copper Mountain College, Joshua Tree, CA, the University of California, Los Angeles, CA, and Adam State University, Alamosa, CO, with her practices including sculpting, […]

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]]> Jasmine Little creates stoneware vessels that channel ancient sculpting in imagined civilizations. Her creations highlight the constant tension between personal history and historical tradition.

Born in Portsmouth, Virginia, Little trained at Copper Mountain College, Joshua Tree, CA, the University of California, Los Angeles, CA, and Adam State University, Alamosa, CO, with her practices including sculpting, drawing, and painting. But it’s her vessels that first caught our attention. Shaped like pillars or cylindrical vases, they are carved with decorative naive iconography that seems out of place and out of time.

According to Litte, the decorative carving of these surfaces is very much dictated by the materials themselves. Using clay that is hand-mixed in California, she incorporates foreign substances that create a distinctive surface. Little then carves directly into this clay while it is still wet and inlays additional materials that include porcelain, common gravel, and clinker bricks.

“A lot of the materials are really specific to place,” she explained in an interview with Art of Choice, “the gravel embedded in the surfaces is from the yard, the porcelain is one of his formulations, and the bricks are salvaged clinker bricks that are from the immediate area and reference the history of the arts and craft movement in Pasadena.”

Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally. Scroll down to see some highlights.

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]]> Frances Priest Designs Beautiful Contemporary Ceramics https://mobispirit.com/frances-priest-designs-beautiful-contemporary-ceramics/ Wed, 15 Apr 2020 08:52:00 +0000 https://mobispirit.com/?p=24337 Edinburgh-based artist Frances Priest mixes different patterns to create beautiful contemporary ceramic vases, bowls, and other designs. She first started by sketching vases and bowls on paper before turning them into real-life pieces. She works using scalpels and aluminum stamps, similar to what she does on paper. “I can distinctly remember spending hours as a […]

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]]> Edinburgh-based artist Frances Priest mixes different patterns to create beautiful contemporary ceramic vases, bowls, and other designs. She first started by sketching vases and bowls on paper before turning them into real-life pieces. She works using scalpels and aluminum stamps, similar to what she does on paper.

“I can distinctly remember spending hours as a child tracing the designs with my fingers, leafing from page to page and absorbing the visual languages on display,” she told Cavaliero of Finn.

If you’re into colors and patterns, you’re going to love her work! Priest was always into design, even as a child. Her work is inspired by various eras and not limited to a certain style. See it below.

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]]> Trevor Baird’s Beautiful Ceramic Works https://mobispirit.com/trevor-bairds-beautiful-ceramic-works/ Tue, 14 Apr 2020 08:43:00 +0000 https://mobispirit.com/?p=24314 Montreal-based artist Trevor Baird shows that anything can be art. He transforms our idea of ceramic vases as something historical, vintage, and floral and puts fun contemporary designs on them. Baird is also a comic book artist, which clearly shows from his style. “Ceramics has always been a material that records action very easily,” the […]

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]]> Montreal-based artist Trevor Baird shows that anything can be art. He transforms our idea of ceramic vases as something historical, vintage, and floral and puts fun contemporary designs on them. Baird is also a comic book artist, which clearly shows from his style.

“Ceramics has always been a material that records action very easily,” the artist told WePresent, “basically turning intimate gestures into stone.” His vases and other ceramic items are decorated with parts of comics that form unusual patterns. Each composition looks accidental and purposeful at the same time, like a weird sketchbook that captures the artist’s authentic style.

Scroll down to see some of Baird’s previous works and make sure to follow him on social media for more.

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Can’t wait to get drunk at the Musee next week 😊 #vendusold2018 | Lot 40 : « Untitled 12 » de l’artiste #TrevorBaird représenté par @projetpangee – « Utilisant des dessins et des photographies pris dans son environnement quotidien, Trevor Baird crée des œuvres céramiques en imprimant ces éléments d’histoires comme motifs sur de fines couches de plâtre. » . . Vendu–Sold 2018 | Lot 40: " Untitled 12" by artist Trevor Baird represented by Projet Pangée – "Repetitive silkscreening creates detailed copies of images, tenderly painted like watercolours. Layers are built up backward and then transferred to wet clay, to be folded and forced into shape." #contemporaryart #artist #artinfo #artwork #creative #instaart #modernart #magazine #contemporary #visualart #artoftheday #auction #encan #esse #ceramics @wallacethrasher

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]]> These Glass Sculptures Dance in the Light https://mobispirit.com/these-glass-sculptures-dance-in-the-light/ Tue, 07 Apr 2020 13:16:00 +0000 https://mobispirit.com/?p=24128 Russian glass designer Elena Zaycman is a master stained glass design, employing the Tiffany technique, a glass assembly technique invented by Louis Comfort Tiffany which and inspired by the ancient tradition of glassmaking. Her glass designs, often made in the shape of natural forms, dance in the light, creating a mesmerizing effect that can transform […]

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]]> Russian glass designer Elena Zaycman is a master stained glass design, employing the Tiffany technique, a glass assembly technique invented by Louis Comfort Tiffany which and inspired by the ancient tradition of glassmaking. Her glass designs, often made in the shape of natural forms, dance in the light, creating a mesmerizing effect that can transform any interior.

“When I began working independently, I started with small suspended pieces,” she shared in an interview with the Etsy blog, recalling how her business was shaped, “but I wanted to take the idea of hassle-free installation even further and create something where people wouldn’t need to worry about nails or drilling holes in walls.”

Zaycman’s solution was to attach the stained-glass piece to a brass bar. These pieces included insects and plants all made of smooth glass. Being attached to a bar meant these independent objects could easily be brought into peoples’ homes. “Having an understanding of geometry is useful in calculating complex shapes,” she explains.

You can purchase her original work on her Etsy shop or admire it from afar via Instagram.

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Okay. This is the second one that was designed for @anthropologie. And this piece is very important! Because… this was quite an experiment to mount a big butterfly on the brass spike and base. And it worked out. It is firm & steady. So it gave me the courage & inspiration to create new variations of 'big' butterflies that would come only as stands and not as pendants [English native speakers, may I say so about the stained glass suncatchers?🧐]. So that makes them be independent of windows, hooks & whatever else. Just the way I like! And what do you think about this idea? Yes/damnNo? As I still in hell with the huge pile of orders [& I couldn't be more grateful for this situation! Thank you, guys!❤], I had a chance to assemble only 2 out of 5 new designs. I want to present them all at once when they are all ready. So hopefully the world will see them by New Year '19 🎄🎅🏻 . For now I can only say that I am so-very-much excited to assemble and present them to you because in my opinion they are just gonna be sooo awesome!🤩😁 . #elenazaycman

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]]> Eny Lee Parker Will Make You Fall in Love With Furniture https://mobispirit.com/eny-lee-parker-will-make-you-fall-in-love-with-furniture/ Wed, 01 Apr 2020 10:39:00 +0000 https://mobispirit.com/?p=23848 Eny Lee Parker designs unique objects that echo human emotion. A designer of objects and spaces, her work isn’t meant to blend in with the environment but rather, calls attention to itself, performing both as a practical piece of furniture or lighting as well as a standalone art piece. Born in Brazil and currently based […]

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]]> Eny Lee Parker designs unique objects that echo human emotion. A designer of objects and spaces, her work isn’t meant to blend in with the environment but rather, calls attention to itself, performing both as a practical piece of furniture or lighting as well as a standalone art piece.

Born in Brazil and currently based in Savannah, Georgia, Lee Parker’s introduction to furniture design was through her work as an interior designer. “Interior designers love and appreciate furniture, so the appreciation was always there,” she explained in an interview with Matter of Hand. “But when I was working in residential interior design, we used to have to pick out furniture a lot and I always wished that aspects of the pieces were different in this or that way.”

Still, it took time for Lee Parker to muster the courage needed to turn her attention to furniture making. “I never had confidence that I could actually design things until I came back to Savannah and enrolled in a master’s program for furniture,” she notes.

Her objects are made of organic materials, that make for an earthy, grounded, effect. Those include wood and metals, as well as ceramics, another, separate, passion of Lee Parker. Each piece is sketched out beforehand, providing blueprints for her collection. “I have to know generally what height or width I need,” she says. “It’s so much easier for me to have everything drawn; it’s kind of like having blueprints. You kind of have to. It’s a little different than being in sculpture.”

See some of her unique creations in the gallery below and share with us your favorites.

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]]> ersion="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Sculpture Archives - MobiSpirit MobiSpirit Tue, 18 Oct 2022 11:46:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 Artur Bordalo Uses Discarded Materials and Items to Create “Trash Animals” https://mobispirit.com/artur-bordalo-uses-discarded-materials-and-items-to-create-trash-animals/ Thu, 13 Oct 2022 08:14:00 +0000 https://mobispirit.com/?p=26157 Artur Bordalo, also known as Bordalo II, is a Portuguese artist who is best known for his series of artworks called “Trash Animals.” As part of the series, Bordalo collects discarded materials and items and then uses them to create intriguing animal sculptures. Bordalo’s “Trash Animals” pieces come in various formats. The “Big Trash Animals” […]

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]]> Artur Bordalo, also known as Bordalo II, is a Portuguese artist who is best known for his series of artworks called “Trash Animals.” As part of the series, Bordalo collects discarded materials and items and then uses them to create intriguing animal sculptures.

Bordalo’s “Trash Animals” pieces come in various formats. The “Big Trash Animals” works are built on a larger scale and almost exclusively with garbage, “aiming to provoke a different look at our consumerist habits.” According to his official website, he created close to 200 “Big Trash Animals,” and these sculptures are currently scattered all around the world.

Bordalo also creates animal-inspired artworks out of discarded material in a gallery format. They are divided into Neutral, Half Half, and Plastic Animals subseries and allow the artist to further explore his original ideas. In most cases, each of these smaller pieces uses “textured wood, reusing doors, shutters, windows, and benches of vacant buildings” as canvas, while materials and items like “plastics, electronic material, fabrics, light metals, and children’s toys” are to create the subject of the artwork.

“The smaller scale allows the use of a greater variety of materials for the composition of these works,” the artist explains.

Bordalo’s works are often exhibited in his native Portugal while also making way to Europe and the United States in the past. He also shares them on his social media. Here are our favorite ones.

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]]> Anthony James’ Installations are a Work of Sorcery https://mobispirit.com/anthony-james-installations-are-a-work-of-sorcery/ Mon, 04 Apr 2022 06:53:00 +0000 https://mobispirit.com/?p=25170 Anthony James’ art has an ethereal quality to it. Made of stainless steel, glass, and LED lights, his sculptures and installations are greater than the sum of their parts. “I’ve tried to visually demonstrate the colossally vast and the infinitesimally small,” he remarked once in an interview with Aesthetica Magazine. “The cosmos and the divinity inside […]

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]]> Anthony James’ art has an ethereal quality to it. Made of stainless steel, glass, and LED lights, his sculptures and installations are greater than the sum of their parts. “I’ve tried to visually demonstrate the colossally vast and the infinitesimally small,” he remarked once in an interview with Aesthetica Magazine. “The cosmos and the divinity inside oneself.”

Indeed, there’s a plurality in his work based on a manipulation of light and mirrors, that expresses an infinite universe, lurking behind mirror and glass. “My work is my best attempt at giving the impossible, the infinite, a physical, objective existence,” says James. “The materials are merely an extension of the gesture.”

Born in England in 1974, and now based in Los Angeles, James has studied in London at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and graduated with a degree in fine art painting. Recent sculptures include a bright nickel octahedron, a solar black dodecagon, a 2.5-meter high crystal, and a triacontahedron.

According to James, his intention is to express science, spirituality, and philosophy in an object the purest and most honest way he knows how. Using a blend of high technology and centuries-old techniques, the end results are best experienced live.

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]]> This Amazingly Looking Sushi is Actually Made of Stone https://mobispirit.com/this-amazingly-looking-sushi-is-actually-made-of-stone/ Wed, 02 Mar 2022 06:03:00 +0000 https://mobispirit.com/?p=26021 Based only on photos of his works, you could easily assume that Mari Hamahira is one very talented sushi chef. However, while he does make sushi, he’s no chef. At least, that’s not his primary profession. Hamahira is a Japanese artist who creates amazingly realistic sushi sculptures using polished stones. To make it all even […]

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]]> Based only on photos of his works, you could easily assume that Mari Hamahira is one very talented sushi chef. However, while he does make sushi, he’s no chef. At least, that’s not his primary profession.

Hamahira is a Japanese artist who creates amazingly realistic sushi sculptures using polished stones. To make it all even more impressive, the bright colors of seafood in his gunkan maki or tuna in nigiri sushi pieces are all natural. So the color you see is the color of the stone used and not a result of a paint job.

Hamahira, who is a graduate student at one of Japan’s art schools, revealed that he came up with the idea while going through a lockdown. The remote learning allowed him to invest more time into the project, and he ended up making it the centerpiece of his graduating thesis.

The sushi sculptures were mainly inspired by Hamahira’s working experience in the seafood industry and the food waste that surrounds it. He is hoping to raise awareness about the issue with this project, which is the main reason for including the more provocative sushi pieces with human body parts resting on rice instead of fish.

According to Hamahira, this part of the collection should remind us that some of the food we consume was once a living and breathing thing.

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]]> Enchanting Pottery You Need to Own if You Want to Be “In” This Fall https://mobispirit.com/enchanting-pottery-you-need-to-own-if-you-want-to-be-in-this-fall/ Fri, 29 Oct 2021 12:00:00 +0000 https://mobispirit.com/?p=25886 Milla Istomina from Mist Ceramics comes from a creative background, but it wasn’t until recent years that she started to take her artwork more seriously. What makes her artwork so special is the resourceful process that she uses to create her masterpieces. Specializing in pumpkin-themed pieces, her enchanting pottery puts will put the “awe” in […]

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]]> Milla Istomina from Mist Ceramics comes from a creative background, but it wasn’t until recent years that she started to take her artwork more seriously. What makes her artwork so special is the resourceful process that she uses to create her masterpieces. Specializing in pumpkin-themed pieces, her enchanting pottery puts will put the “awe” in autumn.

Her mother encouraged Milla to create fun and unusual things. However, her first encounter with sculpting happened in her earliest childhood when she picked up clay on a riverbank.

“My first experiments sculpting involved modeling clay or clay we picked up on a riverbank. The latter was an absolute delight to work with; although I could not fire it in the kiln, I could dry it in the sun and paint using gouache paints,” she shared in an interview for VoyageLa. She added that in 2018, she decided she would treat herself to a wheel-throwing class. And little to say it was love at first touch.

When in 2020 she lost her full-time job, Istomina decided to grab her handmade stuff out of the boxes, photograph them, and share her beautiful and unique pottery work on Etsy.

“I am more comfortable making my tableware on the potter’s wheel, while some pieces are exclusively hand-built. Etching, sgraffito, and underglaze painting are some of my favorite decorative techniques,” she added.

If you are interested in her creations, you can contact her on Etsy or make a commission, she loves creating new stuff.

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]]> Terry Cook Will Inspire You To Get Creative With His Out-Of-The-Box Projects https://mobispirit.com/terry-cook-will-inspire-you-to-get-creative-with-his-out-of-the-box-projects/ Mon, 21 Dec 2020 15:33:46 +0000 https://mobispirit.com/?p=25289 If there’s a silver lining to COVID-19, it’s the return of hobbies. Being homebound means reintroducing ourselves to pastimes like baking and knitting—and Terry Cook has been doing just that. A self-proclaimed tinkerer and doodler, his hands are often busy with something: anything from the more traditional watercolor, acrylics, and inks, to the more experimental robotics […]

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]]> If there’s a silver lining to COVID-19, it’s the return of hobbies. Being homebound means reintroducing ourselves to pastimes like baking and knitting—and Terry Cook has been doing just that.

A self-proclaimed tinkerer and doodler, his hands are often busy with something: anything from the more traditional watercolor, acrylics, and inks, to the more experimental robotics and high voltage items. And then there’s also his experimentation with balloons.

Using balloons as sculptural material, he recreates humans and birds. “I am obsessed with birds (Mostly British and European) and have been since I was a child,” writes Cook on his website. His balloon heads came later, taking inspiration from the material itself.

“I thought it would be cool to use the creases that form naturally on the balloon surface as the latex begins to degrade and lose its form,” he writes. “I made heads and then photographed them over a period of weeks as they began to deflate. Some went quicker than others.”

Other creative endeavors are more traditional, and include illustration and paintings. “I paint whatever I like,” writes Cook on his website, “but usually things relating to my hobbies and interests. I have also painted things relating to pop culture icons even though I have little interest in them, purely for the joy of painting!”

His other interests include animals, insects, physics and biology, robotics, automatons, and magic tricks. His Instagram page is worth following for its experimental quality alone. He might just inspire you to get your hands dirty…

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]]> Out of Place, Out of Time: Jasmine Little’s Unique Sculptures https://mobispirit.com/out-of-place-out-of-time-jasmine-littles-unique-sculptures/ Mon, 16 Nov 2020 15:59:00 +0000 https://mobispirit.com/?p=25247 Jasmine Little creates stoneware vessels that channel ancient sculpting in imagined civilizations. Her creations highlight the constant tension between personal history and historical tradition. Born in Portsmouth, Virginia, Little trained at Copper Mountain College, Joshua Tree, CA, the University of California, Los Angeles, CA, and Adam State University, Alamosa, CO, with her practices including sculpting, […]

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]]> Jasmine Little creates stoneware vessels that channel ancient sculpting in imagined civilizations. Her creations highlight the constant tension between personal history and historical tradition.

Born in Portsmouth, Virginia, Little trained at Copper Mountain College, Joshua Tree, CA, the University of California, Los Angeles, CA, and Adam State University, Alamosa, CO, with her practices including sculpting, drawing, and painting. But it’s her vessels that first caught our attention. Shaped like pillars or cylindrical vases, they are carved with decorative naive iconography that seems out of place and out of time.

According to Litte, the decorative carving of these surfaces is very much dictated by the materials themselves. Using clay that is hand-mixed in California, she incorporates foreign substances that create a distinctive surface. Little then carves directly into this clay while it is still wet and inlays additional materials that include porcelain, common gravel, and clinker bricks.

“A lot of the materials are really specific to place,” she explained in an interview with Art of Choice, “the gravel embedded in the surfaces is from the yard, the porcelain is one of his formulations, and the bricks are salvaged clinker bricks that are from the immediate area and reference the history of the arts and craft movement in Pasadena.”

Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally. Scroll down to see some highlights.

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]]> Frances Priest Designs Beautiful Contemporary Ceramics https://mobispirit.com/frances-priest-designs-beautiful-contemporary-ceramics/ Wed, 15 Apr 2020 08:52:00 +0000 https://mobispirit.com/?p=24337 Edinburgh-based artist Frances Priest mixes different patterns to create beautiful contemporary ceramic vases, bowls, and other designs. She first started by sketching vases and bowls on paper before turning them into real-life pieces. She works using scalpels and aluminum stamps, similar to what she does on paper. “I can distinctly remember spending hours as a […]

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]]> Edinburgh-based artist Frances Priest mixes different patterns to create beautiful contemporary ceramic vases, bowls, and other designs. She first started by sketching vases and bowls on paper before turning them into real-life pieces. She works using scalpels and aluminum stamps, similar to what she does on paper.

“I can distinctly remember spending hours as a child tracing the designs with my fingers, leafing from page to page and absorbing the visual languages on display,” she told Cavaliero of Finn.

If you’re into colors and patterns, you’re going to love her work! Priest was always into design, even as a child. Her work is inspired by various eras and not limited to a certain style. See it below.

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]]> Trevor Baird’s Beautiful Ceramic Works https://mobispirit.com/trevor-bairds-beautiful-ceramic-works/ Tue, 14 Apr 2020 08:43:00 +0000 https://mobispirit.com/?p=24314 Montreal-based artist Trevor Baird shows that anything can be art. He transforms our idea of ceramic vases as something historical, vintage, and floral and puts fun contemporary designs on them. Baird is also a comic book artist, which clearly shows from his style. “Ceramics has always been a material that records action very easily,” the […]

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]]> Montreal-based artist Trevor Baird shows that anything can be art. He transforms our idea of ceramic vases as something historical, vintage, and floral and puts fun contemporary designs on them. Baird is also a comic book artist, which clearly shows from his style.

“Ceramics has always been a material that records action very easily,” the artist told WePresent, “basically turning intimate gestures into stone.” His vases and other ceramic items are decorated with parts of comics that form unusual patterns. Each composition looks accidental and purposeful at the same time, like a weird sketchbook that captures the artist’s authentic style.

Scroll down to see some of Baird’s previous works and make sure to follow him on social media for more.

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Can’t wait to get drunk at the Musee next week 😊 #vendusold2018 | Lot 40 : « Untitled 12 » de l’artiste #TrevorBaird représenté par @projetpangee – « Utilisant des dessins et des photographies pris dans son environnement quotidien, Trevor Baird crée des œuvres céramiques en imprimant ces éléments d’histoires comme motifs sur de fines couches de plâtre. » . . Vendu–Sold 2018 | Lot 40: " Untitled 12" by artist Trevor Baird represented by Projet Pangée – "Repetitive silkscreening creates detailed copies of images, tenderly painted like watercolours. Layers are built up backward and then transferred to wet clay, to be folded and forced into shape." #contemporaryart #artist #artinfo #artwork #creative #instaart #modernart #magazine #contemporary #visualart #artoftheday #auction #encan #esse #ceramics @wallacethrasher

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]]> These Glass Sculptures Dance in the Light https://mobispirit.com/these-glass-sculptures-dance-in-the-light/ Tue, 07 Apr 2020 13:16:00 +0000 https://mobispirit.com/?p=24128 Russian glass designer Elena Zaycman is a master stained glass design, employing the Tiffany technique, a glass assembly technique invented by Louis Comfort Tiffany which and inspired by the ancient tradition of glassmaking. Her glass designs, often made in the shape of natural forms, dance in the light, creating a mesmerizing effect that can transform […]

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]]> Russian glass designer Elena Zaycman is a master stained glass design, employing the Tiffany technique, a glass assembly technique invented by Louis Comfort Tiffany which and inspired by the ancient tradition of glassmaking. Her glass designs, often made in the shape of natural forms, dance in the light, creating a mesmerizing effect that can transform any interior.

“When I began working independently, I started with small suspended pieces,” she shared in an interview with the Etsy blog, recalling how her business was shaped, “but I wanted to take the idea of hassle-free installation even further and create something where people wouldn’t need to worry about nails or drilling holes in walls.”

Zaycman’s solution was to attach the stained-glass piece to a brass bar. These pieces included insects and plants all made of smooth glass. Being attached to a bar meant these independent objects could easily be brought into peoples’ homes. “Having an understanding of geometry is useful in calculating complex shapes,” she explains.

You can purchase her original work on her Etsy shop or admire it from afar via Instagram.

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Okay. This is the second one that was designed for @anthropologie. And this piece is very important! Because… this was quite an experiment to mount a big butterfly on the brass spike and base. And it worked out. It is firm & steady. So it gave me the courage & inspiration to create new variations of 'big' butterflies that would come only as stands and not as pendants [English native speakers, may I say so about the stained glass suncatchers?🧐]. So that makes them be independent of windows, hooks & whatever else. Just the way I like! And what do you think about this idea? Yes/damnNo? As I still in hell with the huge pile of orders [& I couldn't be more grateful for this situation! Thank you, guys!❤], I had a chance to assemble only 2 out of 5 new designs. I want to present them all at once when they are all ready. So hopefully the world will see them by New Year '19 🎄🎅🏻 . For now I can only say that I am so-very-much excited to assemble and present them to you because in my opinion they are just gonna be sooo awesome!🤩😁 . #elenazaycman

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]]> Eny Lee Parker Will Make You Fall in Love With Furniture https://mobispirit.com/eny-lee-parker-will-make-you-fall-in-love-with-furniture/ Wed, 01 Apr 2020 10:39:00 +0000 https://mobispirit.com/?p=23848 Eny Lee Parker designs unique objects that echo human emotion. A designer of objects and spaces, her work isn’t meant to blend in with the environment but rather, calls attention to itself, performing both as a practical piece of furniture or lighting as well as a standalone art piece. Born in Brazil and currently based […]

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]]> Eny Lee Parker designs unique objects that echo human emotion. A designer of objects and spaces, her work isn’t meant to blend in with the environment but rather, calls attention to itself, performing both as a practical piece of furniture or lighting as well as a standalone art piece.

Born in Brazil and currently based in Savannah, Georgia, Lee Parker’s introduction to furniture design was through her work as an interior designer. “Interior designers love and appreciate furniture, so the appreciation was always there,” she explained in an interview with Matter of Hand. “But when I was working in residential interior design, we used to have to pick out furniture a lot and I always wished that aspects of the pieces were different in this or that way.”

Still, it took time for Lee Parker to muster the courage needed to turn her attention to furniture making. “I never had confidence that I could actually design things until I came back to Savannah and enrolled in a master’s program for furniture,” she notes.

Her objects are made of organic materials, that make for an earthy, grounded, effect. Those include wood and metals, as well as ceramics, another, separate, passion of Lee Parker. Each piece is sketched out beforehand, providing blueprints for her collection. “I have to know generally what height or width I need,” she says. “It’s so much easier for me to have everything drawn; it’s kind of like having blueprints. You kind of have to. It’s a little different than being in sculpture.”

See some of her unique creations in the gallery below and share with us your favorites.

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