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Steel Figurative Sculptures by Jordi Díez Fernández

Barcelona-based sculptor Jordi Diez Fernandez creates these figurative sculptures made of welded steel fragments

Check his website: http://www.jordidiezfernandez.com/

Ice Cream Ceramic Sculptures by Anna Barlow

British Artist Anna Barlow created these realistic ice cream sculptures made of high fired, glazed porcelain.

“I am fascinated by the way we eat food, especially by the rituals around celebrational or indulgent treats that have developed... I have focused on ice cream as it is such a momentary and yet memorable treat that most of us have experienced and therefore can evoke memories of sensations and tastes, as well as prompt a fantasy of desired indulgences.”

"The beauty of food left to melt and ooze holds a fascination for me. It is something that is usually over looked and temporary but this can be captured and frozen in time with clay and glaze."

"It took about 8 years of research to come up with the right techniques and colours."

"I use a scoop for the earthenware clay, as you would with real ice-cream, then the 'cream’ is piped on and the hand-modelled extras are added."

"I use a mixture of techniques: I work from molds a lot--both press molding and slip casting--I really like the way a mold can pick up so much detail. I push clay across a small round mold to create ice cream "scoops" and pipe wet clay through an icing bag for cream. I hand model all the cherries--so every one is different!"

"I love the idea that ice-cream only lasts for seconds but once its fired, ceramic is permanent unless you break it."

On average, she spends three months on a single sculpture.

All images are © Copyright of Anna Barlow

Check her website: http://s394557583.websitehome.co.uk/

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Desert Breath - Land Art Installation in Sahara Desert

Desert Breath is a double-spiral extra-large land art installation located near the Red Sea in El Gouna, Egypt.

Created by D.A.ST. Arteam, the team was founded in 1995 by: Danae Stratou (installation artist), Alexandra Stratou (industrial designer & architect), Stella Constantinides (architect), for the purpose of creating this project.

"Desert Breath expands in an area of 100.000 m2, in the eastern Sahara desert bordering the Red Sea in El Gouna, Egypt. It is a site-specific work that generated out of our perception of the site itself."

"Its construction consists of the displacement of 8.000 m3 of sand formed so as to create precise positive and negative conical volumes. The conical volumes form two interlocking spirals that move out from a common centre with a phase difference of 180o degrees in the same direction of rotation. The centre is a 30-metre diameter vessel formed in a W-shaped section and filled with water to its rim."

The artwork took two years to complete.

"The construction of Desert Breath was completed in March 1997. Desert Breath still exists becoming through its slow disintegration, an instrument to measure the passage of time."

"Desert Breath" | Land Art Installation | By D.A.ST. Arteam, Egypt (1997) from Danae Stratou on Vimeo.

Check the website: http://www.danaestratou.com/projects/exterior/desert-breath

Kinetic Sculptures by U-Ram Choe

Korean artist U-Ram Choe creates ornate kinetic sculptures made of various metals, motors, gears, and custom CPU boards.

Check his website: www.uram.net/

Mandalas Painting by Amy Cheng

New York-based artist Amy Cheng creates these beautiful abstract, mandala (Sanskrit for "circle") inspired paintings.

“When I contemplate the energy of life force I think of cells and cell divisions, the universe forming itself out of dust, seeds blooming into plants, all which tend to emerge jewel-like, diaphanous, seductive and playful.”

"I used the circle within a square as a formal device to make centered, iconic images. Eventually I came to see that, although not strictly speaking devotional, the paintings do speak to the sacred, to the largeness of life, to being one with the universe."

"In retrospect I have come to see that I am creating what my friend, the artist Thomas Lyon Mills describes as worlds within worlds with the aim of revealing profound, contemplative, slow, truths."