Woman w/ Superhuman Sight Sees 99m More Colors

She can see an unimaginable range and depth of hues and is the first  so-called ‘tetrachromat’ to be discovered in Britain following a 20-year search by researchers.

Gorgeous Photographs of Explosions

New Zealand artist and photographer Geoffrey H. Short hired special effects experts from the film industry to set up explosions on the black sands of the New Zealand coast. They mixed fossil fuel and gunpowder and set the explosions in mid-air to cause minimum damage to the environment, while Short caught them in his camera. Geoffrey H. Short said in a statement, “I am not trying to tell people what they should think, rather I am making art objects which I hope will make people think.”

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Dismantling Stereotypes of Beauty and Femininity

The relationships of women to themselves and their environment fuel the narratives of Jennifer Nehrbass’ paintings and are formed from the binary oppositions between the images. By dismantling the roles and stereotypes of beauty and femininity Nehrbass examines the psychology that leads women to go to extremes to maintain beauty and style. –BEAUTIFUL DECAY

Nature People

Constance Mallinson‘s large-scale paintings merge the man-made world and nature literally by constructing figures from images of leaves, twigs, and decaying organic material. They are grotesque meditations on both the mortality of humans and the world in which they live.

 

VIA: –BEAUTIFUL DECAY