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Invoking the Divine Feminine, Delita Martin’s Mixed-Media Portraits Embrace Self-Empowerment

"Duality is the idea that there are two realms within (the) spirit world," says Delita Martin, "one that is seen and one that is unseen." This coupling is a grounding force for the artist as she practices an alchemy of spirit and aesthetics, coaxing dynamic figures from a mélange of patterns, materials, and symbols. Through a vivid body of work titled Conjure, Martin explores what it means to be self-empowered as a Black woman…

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‘Wood You Mind’ Imbues a Charming Cast of Chiseled Characters with Exuberance and Whimsy

A beaming fast-food duo, rotund stegosaurus, and shy alpaca are among the large cast of playful characters crafted by Parn Aniwat (previously). Working out of his studio in Texas, Aniwat, a.k.a Wood You Mind, carefully chisels each figure from wood, slowly but surely unearthing every character’s distinct features. Each personality is brought to life with vivid washes of acrylic paint, detailing endearing faces, sprightly attire, and a whimsical aura. Aniwat sells the adorable figures on Etsy, and keep an eye on Instagram for news about releases and commission opportunities. Watch small…

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Commuters Go Wild in Matthew Grabelsky’s Uncanny Subway Paintings

Urbanites know the subway is a prime location to spot the city's oddities, and yet, a run-in with one of Matthew Grabelsky’s characters would be a particularly wild encounter. The Los Angeles-based artist has spent the last few years rendering human-animal hybrids that nonchalantly ride public transit. Sometimes snacking on a cracker or brushing up on some reading, the characters are surreal, uncanny additions to an otherwise mundane scene. Grabelsky's newest oil paintings, which are currently on view…

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Sho Shibuya On Ritual, His Impulse Toward Minimalism, and His Love for Ubiquitous Objects

Artist and designer Sho Shibuya (previously) grounds his life in ritual. As his routine necessarily changed when COVID-19 closed public spaces and the office of his design studio Placeholder, Shibuya, like many of us, began to focus on life inside his Brooklyn home and channeled the energy he might have spent commuting or out to dinner with friends into a creative practice that he continues today. Equipped with The New York Times he reads each morning, the Japanese artist started to reinterpret the sunrise outside his apartment window into bright, colorful paintings that masked the cover of the daily newspaper.…

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Photography

Aggressive Avians Dominate the 2022 Bird Photographer of the Year Contest

From rival spotted redshanks to combatting spoonbills, quite a few finalists from the 2022 Bird Photographer of the Year contest center on avians as they fight for territory, food, and mates. The seventh-annual competition garnered more than 20,000 entries from 115 countries that capture a wildly diverse array of behaviors and habitats. Winners officially will be announced in September and coincide with a book release and exhibition of the top photos. Until then, see some of our favorites below, and check out last…

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A Candy-Colored Cloud Hovers Over a West Texas Landscape Mid-Thunderstorm

While chasing a tornado near the small town of Earth, Texas, earlier this week, amateur photographer Laura Rowe captured this enormous cloud filtered with pastel sunlight. The candy-colored mass swells above the dusky expanse in the midst of a thunderstorm, and as Kottke notes, the serendipitous shot evokes the saturated, trippy swirls in Milton Glaser's 1966 poster of Bob Dylan. Prints are available on Rowe's site.

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