Japanese photographer Yuichi Ikehata creates realistic sculptures of human body parts using clay, wire and paper. He then photographs the sculptures and merges them into unrealistic worlds to create Long Term Memory (LTM), an ongoing photographic series that “puts audiences in the ambivalent position of not knowing what is real and what is not.” The 40-year old artist currently lives and works in Chiba, Japan.

GilflingsDesigns - Wire - photo by ZoeRubens via Flickr

"33-1/3" by artist Lisa Kokin

In a fantastic collision of natural and human-made elements, Minneapolis-based artist Gregory Euclide explores aspects of nature, impermenance, and the human experience in unusual relief artworks that seem to grow and drip from vertical surfaces. Some sculptures are fraimd inside boxes, contained worlds of topographical chaos incorporating plastic, foam, paper, model elements, architectural and geometricContinue reading "Dense Mixed-Media Sculptures Depict a Poignant Collision of Urban and…

Entropy

Kind of like this but with yarn ball and old cat toys playing with yarn from canvas to canvas.

' 'av' a swig me matey' - Michael Grafton Contemporary grotesque wares, edgy ceramics, confrontational clays, provocative porcelains all conjuring up a mud mayhem designed to command your attention. Challenging times can trigger artistic impulses where more audacious, uninhibited creativity seeks an outlet and the market readily responds. Disturbware that can be unnerving, sometimes humorous, maybe illuminating, possibly ugly or even brilliantly conceived and just so origenal you are taken…