oh such fragile things and other imaginings

Macross Valkyries by Tenjin Hidetaka (via Concept Ships)

No Way Home by Rafa Zubiría (via Achitizer Blog)

Notes from Kelly Chan from Achitizer Blog:

No Way Home is a photo series by Spanish artist and photographer Rafa Zubiría depicting captivating fictions of hovering buildings. In these surreal images, heavy structures typically anchored to the ground are shown levitating weightlessly in the air.

While architecture is the subject at hand, Zubiría’s imagery undoubtedly draws from the confounding appearance of documented UFO sightings. The artist pairs the sense of cold hard evidence that comes with the photographic medium, emphasized by saturated colors and seemingly spontaneous compositions, with the limitations of his craft: captured in a single photographic frame, these buildings refuse to clarify whether they are coming or leaving or even simply suspended in air. Frozen in imperfect focus and rendered in grainy resolution, these buildings leave us with countless unanswered questions.

The result is eerie and beautiful, both disturbing and dream-like. Zubiría’s work channels the suggestive and sensual qualities of photography to empower architecture with our own imaginative capacity. His buildings are not stationary objects but mysterious elements, part of a universe full of readings.

Stellar by Ignacio Torres

Notes from the author:

This project began from the theory that humans are made of cosmic matter as a result of a stars death. I created imagery that showcased this cosmic birth through the use of dust and reflective confetti to create galaxies. The models organic bodily expressions as they are frozen in time between the particles suggest their celestial creation. In addition, space and time is heightened by the use of three-dimensional animated gifs. Their movement serves as a visual metaphor to the spatial link we share with stars as well as their separateness through time.

EVOL’s Rural City (via Unurth)

Back To Basics by Zim and Zou

Everyday Life by Shintaro Ohata (via My Modern Met)

once again, thanks, thangdora for the link!

Liquid Ground by Helen Prynor

Notes about the artwork (from GV Art London):

Pynor’s new body of work is a captivating and powerful portrayal of the interior of the human body, introducing a visual language that is at once anatomically explicit and yet conveys a tenderness and regard for her subject matter that is refreshing, surprising and disturbing in the context of the body’s interior. The works offer new and unexpected ways to view and relate to our body’s interior which remains a largely unexplored and somewhat frightening domain for many of us.

Liquid Ground offers a challenge to dominant modes of presenting the body’s interior, by rejecting the celebration of gore and horror, and likewise challenging the clinical neutrality sought within medical discourse. Despite the potential for morbidity in the subject matter, the works become strangely compelling evocations of our visceral fragility and the entwined nature of our biological and cultural selves.