Hallucinations of Polka Dots: The Work of Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama is a visionary who inspired and contributed to the emerging avant-garde movements of pop art and minimalism in the 1950s and 60s and continues to produce unusual and …
Not Your Average Game of Cat and Mouse: Armor by Jeff de Boer
Multi-media visual artist Jeff de Boer is famous for bringing together things that aren’t often associated with one another: cats, mice, and armor. That’s right, he builds small suits of …
Art from Dark Places: Caves as Houses of Faith
Caves are places of deep spiritual significance, containing connotations of safety and shelter on one hand and darkness and terror on the other. Much like the human psyche itself, a …
Imitating Nature: Fascinating Textures of Lorna Fraser
Lorna Fraser is a sculptor who takes her inspiration from gardens, imitating the structures of plants, including water lilies and various seedpods, in black and white ceramics. This medium allows …
The Art of Joan Danziger: Beetles Invasion from the Smithsonian Blog
Synkroniciti is happy to feature this wonderful article from the Smithsonian blog on the work of Joan Danziger. Danziger started her career as a painter, but her life changed after …
Of Mud and Poetry Contests: What Kind of Creative are You?
Flowers don’t often grow in clay and piles of mud seldom win sculpture contests. Are you using your creativity effectively? Mud is a substance with a myriad of uses, from …
Mud and Consciousness: The Works of Alexandra Engelfriet
Have you ever felt a rush of joy when digging in the dirt or splashing through mud? There is something very primal about soil and our relationship to it. Alexandra …
Spirits of Earth and Water: Heligan, Eden and Mud Sculpture in Cornwall
From ghostly moors to the longest stretch of continuous coastline in Britain, the county of Cornwall is a mysterious and legendary place, home to the famously haunted Jamaica Inn on …
Optical Illusion in Motion: Möbius by ENESS
Have a look at Möbius, described as a “collaborative stop motion sculpture” consisting of twenty-one large green triangles. In May 2011 it was moved about in Melbourne’s Federation Square, where the …
The Illusion of Luxury: Kathy Dalwood’s Secret Society– A Sculptural Banquet
British sculptor Kathy Dalwood is well known for her architectural sculpture, having designed planters and other items for the home. Her latest project, Secret Society– A Sculptural Banquet is a stunning …