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Stunning Bonsai Wire Trees by KaiTrees

Wisconsin-based artist KaiTrees creates incredibly detailed, insanely intricate bonsai trees using strands of high quality aluminum alloy wire.  He has spent the past 23 years mastering this labor-intensive craft, or "decoding the language of…

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Gorgeous Tree of Light by Pink+Gruen

For those who visited the Fusion Festival near the Lake Muritz in Germany this summer, they were in for a treat as design duo Pink+Gruen created an unforgettable lighting experience for late-night visitors. Dubbed…

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Caitlind Brown’s Shimmering Cloud of 6,000 Light Bulbs

Cloud, a large-scale light installation by Calgary-based artist Caitlind Brown, is definitely a crowd pleaser at the annual multi-city late-night arts festival Nuit Blanche in Calgary this year.  Created from steel, metal pull strings, and 6,000 light…

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Giant Balloon Bridge at Tatton’s Japanese Garden

Pont de Singe is the latest art installation by French artist Olivier Grossetête created for Tatton Park Biennial (12 May to 30 September 2012), which takes place at one of the UK’s most complete historic estates.  It…

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Bruno Catalano’s Art of Missing Pieces

French sculptor Bruno Catalano is known to create unconventional bronze statues with missing mid sections.  At first glance, each sculpture in the Traveler series appears to be caught in the middle of a Houdini-like vanishing…

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Great Hare by Mary Catherine Newcomb

This charming woodland creature was found reclining on the floor at  the Loop Gallery in Toronto earlier this year.  Titled "Great Hare", the 8-foot-long grassy sculpture is created by Ontario-based artist Mary Catherine Newcomb using turf…

Interactive artwork "Marbles" by Studio Roosegaarde

Interactive ‘Marbles’ by Studio Roosegaarde

'Marbles', Stuido Roosegaarde's latest creation, is an interactive installation consisted of large glowing forms which interact with people via sound, light and color. Each 'Marble' with embedded sensor and interactive technologies is responsive to…

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Luzinterruptus Transformed Flinders Street Into a Bibliophile’s Paradise

Spanish collective Luzinterruptus created this traffic-stopping light installation "Literature Versus Traffic" for The Light in Winter (June 1 – July 1, 2012). This year’s program was inspired by the National Year of the Reading…

Nathan Craven Invites You To Walk On His Ceramics Carpet

Nathan Craven Invites You To Walk On His Work

American ceramics artist Nathan Craven is known to create walls and floors using odd-shaped ceramic bricks. His latest large-scale interactive installation Construct, is consisted of 14,000 individual ceramic pieces that were shown once before…

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Installation Made of Sheets of Melted Sugar

Dutch artist Noortje van den Eijnde has created an installation called "Sugar Solar" that imitates the sun and encourages viewers to sense and interact with it in various ways.  You can hear sound…

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Incredibly Realistic Dolls by Laurence Ruet

It is hard to believe that these little girls are not real.  French artist Laurence Ruet creates incredibly lifelike dolls using polymer clay.  Details on the face and the limbs are painted with acrylic…

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Troika’s Kinetic Installation Mimics A School of Fish

At first glance, this striking scene appears to be a group of fish swimming and riding on ocean currents.  But it is, in fact, a permanent kinetic installation "Shoal" consisted of 467 suspended…

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400 Giant Balloons Illuminate Hadrian’s Wall

Connecting Light, a digital art installation created by New York-based digital arts collective YesYesNo, takes place across the 73 miles of Hadrian’s Wall World Heritage Site. The installation consists of over 400 light-filled, six-foot-in-diameter balloons transmitting messages…

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Floral Paper Installation by Benja Harney

Sydney-based paper engineer Benja Harney has crafted a splendid large-scale floral installation that hangs from the central dome of Sydney's Queen Victoria Building. Unique paper sculptures of falling paper blossoms, buzzing dragonflies and lush green…

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Mosaic Portraits Made From 6500 CDs

Milan-based artists Mirco Pagano and Moreno De Turco, in collaboration with ad agency TBWA, created these mosaic portraits of music icons, such as Michael Jackson and Elvis, for a campaign called "Piracy".  The…

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Time To Play With Pixels 2.0

Netherlands-based design duo Jonas Vorwerk and Yoren Schriever continue to expand their successful interactive project Pixels by adding new functions to the playful light block for people to explore.  The latest version "Pixels…

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Stephen Knapp Paints With Light

American artist Stephen Knapp is best known for his "lightpaintings", which are light-based installations created using a special glass that act as a selective prism to separate focused light into different wavelengths of the…

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Jonathan Brilliant : To Weave. To Stack. To Stain.

Jonathan Brilliant, inspired by manufactured, mass-produced items in his environment, has focused on coffee shop paraphernalia. To create the main components of his solo exhibition at Artspace "To Weave. To Stack. To Stain.", Brilliant worked…

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