Perfect Parrot

…e perfectly balanced in form and tone. He or she might realise that the eye-comfiness is augmented by the dark marginal line serving as a frame to be both respected and encroached upon. With further reflection, he or she might conclude that the sophistication has been further amplified by child-like application of the paint whilst the forms and colour choices are far from childlike. But …. “Perfect Parrot” was painted by a child! Josephine is eigh… Continue reading

Big Bang Data

…profiles on Facebook to create characters on a false dating website, Lovely-Faces.com, classifying them by their facial features. With “Stranger Visions,” Heather Dewey-Hagborg has 3D printed human faces based on DNA that she obtained from objects such as chewing gum and cigarette butts collected in public places. What I learn is that the volume of data generated by our everyday lives is booming in lockstep with the capacity to analyse it. Those w… Continue reading

Nick Brandt’s African ghost animals at Fotografiska

…p paying attention to them, after which Brandt captured the scenes as black-and-white panoramas through the lens of his medium-format Mamiya RZ67 Pro ll. The most poignant panorama shows a family of elephants beneath a road, next to a group of homeless and glue-sniffing kids, juxtaposed to a billboard (in the horizon) of a man relaxing in a park with the text “lean back, your life is on track.” “Underpass with elephants (lean back, your life is on… Continue reading