German photographer Alma Haser combines the portraits pairs of twins by puzzling their images together. She first photographs each twin separately, then prints their corresponding photograph onto a 500 or 1000-piece puzzle. Finally, she switches every other piece to create two works that are an equal combination of each sibling.
Worms
BY CARL DENNIS Aren't you glad at least that the earthworms Under the grass are ignorant, as they eat the earth, Of the good they confer on us, that their silence Isn't a silent reproof for our bad manners, Our never casting earthward a crumb of thanks For their keeping the soil from packing so tight That no root, however determined, could pierce it? Imagine if they suspected how much we owe them, How the weight of our debt would crush us Even if they enjoyed keeping the grass alive, The garden flowers and vegetables, the clover, And wanted nothing that we could give them, Not even the merest nod of acknowledgment. A debt to angels would be easy in comparison, Bright, weightless creatures of cloud, who serve An even brighter and lighter master. Lucky for us they don't know what they're doing, These puny anonymous creatures of dark and damp Who eat simply to live, with no more sense of mission Than nature feels in providing for our survival. Better save our gratitude for a friend Who gives us more than we can give in return And never hints she's waiting for reciprocity. "If I had nickel, I'd give it to you," The lover says, who, having nothing available In the solid, indicative world, scrapes up A coin or two in the world of the subjunctive. "A nickel with a hole drilled in the top So you can fasten it to your bracelet, a charm To protect you against your enemies." For his sake, she'd wear it, not for her own, So he might believe she's safe as she saunters Home across the field at night, the moon above her, Below her the loam, compressed by the soles of her loafers, And the tunneling earthworms, tireless, silent, As they persist, oblivious, in their service. Artist Daniela Forti lives and works in Chianti, Tuscany where she produces fantastic artworks composed of dripped glass. She refers to the pieces as “Jellyfish” because of the tentacles that are formed by hand through a melted glass fusion process.
Danish artist and designer Thomas Dambo specializes in building family-friendly installations from upcycled materials. Check out his project, Happy City Birds, an ongoing series that incorporates street art and community development.
Paris-based design duo Hintlab creates a line of jewelry that are made to house small, interchangeable bricks, allowing their customers to customize their look Each piece of 3D-printed jewelry comes with a set of ten objects that can be either worn as a singular setting or stacked to create a multi-layer work (SO COOL)!
Artist and educator Jill Bliss lives on a small island in the Salish Sea, an intricate network of coastal waterways that stretches from British Columbia to the Pacific Northwest.t She creates artworks that span illustration, photography, and the temporary arrangement of local plants and mushrooms she refers to as Nature Medleys. You can follow her adventures around the Salish sea on Instagram!
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