Category: Experimental

The Alien, Floral Beauty of Patricia Piccinini’s New Works

Note: Contains images that may be considered graphic and disturbing to some readers. Patricia Piccinini is an Australia-based multimedia artist known for her large sculptures of fleshy hybrids that trouble the categories of human and animal, natural and unnatural. In the past year, she has created some astounding sculptures of alien-like flowers, titled “Bootflower,” “Metaflora […]

The Playfully Intimate Nude Photographs of Andi Galdi Vinko

Note: Contains nudity and sexual references. Andi Galdi Vinko is a Hungarian portrait and still life photographer known for her bright and playful compositions. Featured here is “Glittercum,” a series of mischievous photos produced by Galdi Vinko and some of her makeup artist and hairstylist friends. Exploring the idea of enjoying feminine nudity without it […]

Disfigured Flesh: The Morbid Creations of Sarah Sitkin

Note: Contains images that may be considered graphic and disturbing to some readers. Sarah Sitkin is a Los Angeles-based artist who creates sculptural works of mutated body parts that have taken on a disturbing life of their own. Pieces of flesh and bone are mashed together like horrific monuments, oozing and growing hair. In other […]

In Sickness and Beauty: The Photography of Evelyn Bencicova

In haunting, theatrical compositions, photographer Evelyn Bencicova splices the beauty of vulnerability with the terror of illness and confinement. Recurring throughout her works are nude figures that crawl and cling together in empty, hospital-like rooms, their smooth, pallid skin evoking both a sensual euphoria and the fever of near-death. Sometimes the bodies arrange themselves into […]

Distorted Beauty And Supernatural Fantasy in Alva Bernadine’s “Succubus”

Note: Contains nudity and sexual references. Alva Bernadine is a British photographer known for his creative and intriguingly bizarre nude portraits. The series featured here, entitled “Succubus,” draws on the legend of the medieval she-demon of the same name, depicting uncanny female figures; duplicated and conjoined at the waist, they strike provocative poses with their […]

3D Art (“Pipelines”) by David McLeod

Known for creating insanely cool 3D typography, Australian designer David McLeod explores something different this time on his computer. “Pipelines,” that’s what he calls these generative abstract forms which came about by mere accident, a “happy accident through experimentation” as he informs me. “Each is created from a moment in a simulation where the pipes […]

Art + Science: Berlin Artist Produces Hypnotic Videos

Susi Sie states that she is on a “mission to explore the physical and mathematical nature of unusual forms, substances and materials 
to show the hidden beauty and magic of our natural world that constantly surrounds us.” [1] Her videos are indeed magical in the way powder particles form shapes and move in rhythmic manner […]

Evolving Geometries in a Digital World

Eva Papamargariti is a Greek digital artist and architect. Her GIFs and videos are an erratic fusion of geometry, bright colors, shiny textures, and all around high-strung sensibility. If you like to keep your Tumblr feed filled with super-fun content, don’t overlook her. All motion graphics and stills © Eva Papamargariti Via Thvdermag

Wacky Animated GIFs by Romain Laurent

The first image would look funnier if accompanied by Michael Bublé’s song “Feeling Good” (“Birds flying high, You know how I feel, Sun in the sky, You know how I feel..”). That guy looks really happy flapping his “wings.” These animated GIFs were created by photographer Romain Laurent who is becoming internationally famous for them. […]