These tea accessories from my Thinx Gifts store give new meaning to “tea leaves”.
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A leaf x 10 by NOSIGNER
About the project:
Reflecting upon history, leaves were most likely the very first form of plates. Perhaps because it is engrained in our DNA, there is a certain primitive satisfaction that is derived from eating off leaves. By carefully tracing the fine veins of a leaf, and enlarging it 10-fold, we created this leaf-shaped placemat. Eating off the earth has never been easier.
Images from the Sunset series by photographer Ikk Dolidze
Black Pulse by Mike & Doug Starn
Long exposure photography by Alex Mody
The NATUROSCOPIE series of lighting by designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance brings nature’s best lighting effects indoors. NATUROSCOPIE II simulates one of my favorites: sunlight filtered through moving leaves.
Duchaufour-Lawrance on his work:
This set of lights corresponds with the responsive transcription of the sun when it filters through tree foliage. Within each head, the sequence of the LEDs and their reflection on mirrors and coloured surfaces interpret this natural movement, in a both fugitive and perennial temporality. The light asserts itself in the form of sparkles and bright or mellow green, yellow or silver fragments. In the mural compositions, the foliage pattern unfurls flat, on a single level parallel to the wall, the articulations of the heads making different positions possible. With the ceiling fixtures, the volume of the foliage opens out, the modules connecting at different heights.
The leaves in Brad Kunkle’s luminescent paintings are genuinely golden. Kunkle embellishes his paintings with gold and silver leaf.
As a decorative painter in his mid twenties, he leafed entire walls in copper. He was beguiled by the shifting, life-like nature of the surfaces, and began to incorporate gilding in his work. This proved to fulfill the unreal quality he had been looking for to convey his moody, romantic ideas of human nature and ritual. “The use of gold and silver in my paintings serve two main functions —the first being symbolic. Gold and silver serve as symbols in many ways but to begin with, they are ‘material’ symbols in harsh contrast to the spiritual or intangible aspects of life. The shifting of the leafed skies and wallpapers are also symbolic of the ever-changing world we live in. Furthermore, gold is the single most controversial element in the history of mankind. It causes wars, brings death, happiness and beauty - symbolizes love, power, greed, and religion….it’s symbolic properties are just as malleable as it’s physical properties. The second function of the leaf is to react directly with the viewer. As one walks across a room or dims the lights, they are affecting the painting and the painting is affecting them. The paintings become a living, breathing thing to me when the leaf is shifting and the oil is quiet. The art literally becomes interactive and can give the work a supernatural quality. The use of grisaille, or an adaptation of grisaille, against the leaf can give the sense of a very surreal space and unnatural depth within the paintings.”
Photos from Adirondack Park by Michael Melford for National Geographic. The park’s lakes have become a Clean Water Act success story:
Sulfur dioxide from power plants made many Adirondack lakes so acidic they became fishless. Thanks to the Clean Air Act and other measures, some now show signs of recovery.
Selections from Lorenzo Durán’s leaf cut project Naturayarte.
About the project:
I believe that each object in nature and living being has, imprinted in its self, art in its purest form. The colors of a butterfly, mineral glass, a majestic tree, etc., are a form of art that delights the senses, and for me nature is a wonderful way to experience creativity.
Cecropia by Christian Schoeler Maldonado
About the project:
“Unless you clearly see that ugliness Which makes me beatiful, You cannot know that there is a certain Ugliness more beautiful than any beauty. - Il Vertunno dell’ Arcimboldo Don Gregorio Camanini Milano, 1591.”
Inspired by the work of Arcimboldo in the 16th century, this project became an investigation on the relativeness of the beauty. Each photograph shows one individual leaf from the Cecropia tree after one month of it’s fall. They are naturally transformed into organic shapes and sometimes into weird faces and masks or even human figures. Captured in the way they were at the moment, but carefully positioned and lightened to better show it’s individual character.
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