Texas based photographer Cara Barer uses old phone books, computer manuals, maps, and comic books to create hypnotic sculptures, which she then photographs.
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Category Art
Amazing Astronomy: Victorian-Era Illustrations of the Heavens
A chromolithograph of the planet Jupiter, observed Nov. 1, 1880, at 9:30 p.m. The piece of art reveals Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, akin to a hurricane on Earth, which has been raging on the planet for hundreds of years.
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Skeletal Pin-ups by Sylvia Ji
Themes of beauty and death merge in the work of Sylvia Ji, whose skull-faced femme fatales are adorned with nightshade and black widows. Her macabre images are both provocative and alluring, a reflections of life’s binaries; beauty and decay, love and lust and danger and desire.
Beautiful Nightmares & Fairy Tale Tragedies
Chelsea Greene Lewyta is an illustrator and artist who deals in the stuff of nightmare fairy tales and tragedies. Her delicate, often sexually charged watercolors portray women whose brutalization and victimization (in short, trauma) is manifested in the natural world (in little creatures, deer, branches, woods) and in surreal distortions of their personal anatomies.
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