SheWalksSoftly

Nick Fedaeff

April 14th, 2016

Today I give you the psychedelic (and geometric) portraiture of Nick Fedaeff.

From the artist bio:
The slightly disorienting, the hallucinatory quality of a dream, the element of surprise, the absurdity of life are cleverly layered into Nick’s work referencing Surrealism and the Old Masters of the Renaissance.

Thematically Nick interprets the relationships and interconnections between men and women and life and death adding humour as tool of engagement. The study of conscious and unconscious leaves the observer with the unsettling feeling that there is more to the stories than meets the eye.

Nick Fedaeff
Miles Aldridge

April 13th, 2016

This Technicolor photo set of Estelle Chan by photographer Miles Aldridge captivated me with its surreal vintage flare.

Everything is so sublimely artificial and constructed; a glorious Stepford Wife presentation that one can hardly help editorializing at a glance.

These color-saturated high fashion shots are undeniably cinematic. Alridge says “I want to set a sort of unsettling message. But my trick is to sugarcoat it in these bright colors.”

Mission accomplished, sir!

Miles Aldridge
The Bob Baker Marionette Theater

April 11th, 2016

I hope I’m able to get to Los Angeles and visit the The Bob Baker Marionette Theater before it closes down. This landmark theater, created in 1962 out of a run down old shop, may not be anything special on the outside…but has been described as a “giant velvet 1960’s Christmas present” on the inside.

There is no stage, leaving little separation between the audience and the show (many guests sit on the floor). All of the marionettes have so much character, and the theater’s inventory now exceeds 3,000 of them according to a recent article.

Has anyone visited this theater? What did you you think?

The Bob Baker Marionette Theater
Desktop Goodies 4/10

April 10th, 2016

Let’s start with some sea inspired fashion…

And a gorgeous octopus ice sculpture:

A stunning still frame.

I like the way this woman thinks. Pizza will never break your heart.

A beautiful soul is made of rabbits.

Oh thank you, Rachel, for this…and your other invaluable contributions to this post.

I’m sure it’s happening somewhere…

Traveling in style.

I approve of this progression.

Yep, it’s a wig made of countless earbuds on strings…for people who want to have listening parties and don’t care about personal space.

Who remembers this?

All of my outfits are based on various diaphonized specimens. Fashion at its finest.
Christine McConnell: Deceptive Desserts

April 9th, 2016

Deceptive Desserts is a new book by the amazing Christine McConnell.

Look at this nice, healthy bowl of fruit:

PSYCH! It’s cake! Sweet, delicious cake. It still counts as healthy because it looks just like fruit though, right?

Check out McConnell’s amazing images (including sneak peeks into the book) here.

Deceptive Desserts
Conrad Haberland

April 8th, 2016

Conrad Haberland was another random Instagram find for me.

His style is rather unique among the pop surrealists…

…and his use of typically divergent styles in the same composition can work really well.

So much for the eyes to take in here!

Conrad Haberland
Stephanie Law

April 6th, 2016

Stephanie Law paints gorgeous, lush nature scapes.

From the artist bio:
Stephanie Law’s work is an exploration of mythology mixed with her personal symbolism. Her art journeys through surreal otherworlds, populated by dreamlike figures, masked creatures, and winged shadows.

The fantastical permeates through the visions, and you get a sense that this is a world that underlies our own, when viewed with a desire for beauty and a shifted perception.

Archetypes, the basis for the universal appeal of mythological concepts, are one of the defining inspirations for her imagery. This is mingled with the movement of dance.

Stephanie has been a dancer for almost two decades, and she uses that experience of how the human body moves and emotes to create a bridge into her artwork so that not only do the humans dance across the page, but the very branches of her trees seem to move with a sinuous grace, and the arrangement of inanimate elements has a choreographed rhythm and flow.

Stephanie Law
Tom Lohner

April 5th, 2016

I really love Tom Lohner’s animal series.

They have a kind of bionic, sci-fi vibe to them, though on a literal level they are anthropomorphizing animals in very human situations.

In the description of these pieces, Lohner draws attention to the way animals exist on instinct, and questions the “superiority” humans tend to believe they have over the animal kingdom (I, for one, always swear that my cats can teach me a lot, and have much respect for the authentic, zen nature of wild animals!).

Tom Lohner’s
Insta-Goodies

April 4th, 2016
Ephemereality

April 4th, 2016

Today I bring you Ephemereality.

Many of her works fuse the beautiful and oh-so-slightly macabre or strange.

She states: “Beauty is fleeting, but art can capture that fleeting moment and make it an eternity. I seek to catch these ephemeral artistic pauses of life and imagination, and create instances that can last forever.”

Ephemereality