Bal (Ball). Reine Marguerite (Chrysanthemum frutescens), Campanule, Fuchsia, Pied d’Alouette (Delphinium), Muguet (Lily of the Valley), Pyramidale (uh, Ornithogalum narbonense?), Liseron (Field Bindweed). J.J. Grandville, Les fleurs animées.
Katerina Kamprani has some very interesting and entertaining work:
All the objects you will see in this website are deliberately designed to annoy you.
This project started after I failed to finish my studies in industrial design around 2011 and it has continued to grow ever since. My goal is to deconstruct the invisible design language of simple everyday objects and tweak their fundamental properties in order to surprise you and make you laugh. But also to help you appreciate the complexity and depth of interactions with the simplest of objects around us. As a poor designer I have started the project by making conceptual 3d visualisations, but recently I have decided to spend all my savings to produce prototypes, because what would the world be if there were no Uncomfortable objects out there?
Many of these did make me laugh, but there was also a sense of cynical despair, because if these objects were marketed, people would buy them. The concrete umbrella would become a popular garden ornament. The thick buttons would become a new anti-fashion fashion statement. The wineglass would become a new party drinking game favourite. The chain fork would become fashionable jewelry. Ms. Kamprani is in Athens, but here in uStates, people have become such slaves to marketing, I don’t think there would be a problem in selling any of Ms. Kamprani’s prototypes. I certainly wouldn’t be surprised to see unscrupulous people taking advantage.
Laurier (Laurel). The Character is in the Erratum below. J.J. Grandville, Les fleurs animées.
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Jasmin. J.J. Grandville, Les fleurs animées.
Vala is the very picture of annoyed right now, she wants to paint. None of this silly marker business, where she has to stay off the paper, can’t eat markers, and the biggest annoyance of all, no leaving lovely little drops and streams of piss all over everything.
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© Rune Guneriussen.
Rune Guneriussen uses these everyday objects to construct stories, assembled and photographed on-site without any digital intervention in various rural locations all over his native Norway. Embedded into dreamlike landscapes, these surreal, humorous photographs of his installations seem almost computer-generated. As an artist he believes that art itself should be questioning and deceptive as opposed to patronising and restricting. Guneriussen does not explain the stories he is trying to tell, he just leaves them completely open ended. The hidden agenda of his art is not to give clarification, but rather “indicate a path to understanding a story.”
© Rune Guneriussen.
© Rune Guneriussen.
© Rune Guneriussen.
You can see much more of the wonderful and evocative work of Rune Guneriussen at iGNANT and the artist’s website.
Ghosts of Love in Winter, markers on Bristol, 19″ x 24″. Combination of good markers and cheapshit markers. Click for full size.
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Immortelle. J.J. Grandville, Les fleurs animées. The character of Immortelle is here.
Got a start on Ghosts of Love in Winter. That’s it for today though, ’cause meds are about to hit, and that’s not the most advisable altered state for art work. ;) Markers on Bristol, 19″ x 24″.
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The extremely basic part. Now comes all the fiddly stuff. I also keep trying to transpose rq’s title to Ghosts of Winter in Love. Markers on Bristol, 19″ x 24″.
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Ghosts of Love in Winter. The Title is all rq, I’m just filling it in. 19″ x 24″, markers on Bristol.
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