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Artist Henrique Oliveira Constructs a Cavernous Network of Repurposed Wood Tunnels at MAC USP

Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira (previously) recently completed work on his largest installation to date titled Transarquitetônica at Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade in São Paulo. As with much of his earlier sculptural and installation work the enormous piece is built from tapumes, a kind of temporary siding made from inexpensive wood that is commonly used to obscure construction sites. Oliveira uses the repurposed wood pieces as a skin nailed to an organic framework that looks intentionally like a large root system. Because the space provided by the museum was so immense, the artist expanded the installation into a fully immersive environment where viewers are welcome to enter the artwork and explore the cavernous interior. Transarquitetônica will be on view through the end of November this year, and you can watch the video above by Crane TV to hear Oliveira discuss its creation.

Illustrations by Jade Mere

Jade Mere is a writer and illustrator who resides in the Pacific Northwest. In 2016, Jade received her Masters of Fine Arts degree in fiction writing. She has a passion for writing LGBT, especially in the fantasy, science fiction, and paranormal genre. Her gallery work focuses on surreal and story art, with humans and animals as a favorite subject. Clients have hired her for book covers, trading card games, and personal illustrations. Artist website.

Here’s most of my paintings from my solo, “Dancing in Delirium” @coreyhelfordgalleryandcirca-blog - I will post the rest tomorrow <3 

About the Show:

Hannah Yata’s aesthetically beautiful images stand in a stark contrast to her darker subject matter. Inspired by psychology, religion, literature, and her experiences as a woman, the New York based artist calls upon the rich symbolism of the female figure, which she often combines with parts of animals, creating metaphorical hybrid characters. Placing these characters in intriguing scenarios, she explores the depths of our social psychology and draws parallels to modern day issues. In “Dancing in Delirium”, Hannah Yata’s phantasmagorical female creatures and animals embody “the transformative, wild energy of the natural world, tainted with abuse of modern society”.

Delirium, as it relates to brain necrosis, is the last gasps of energy synapses that are sparking out.

“Dancing in a world of delirium” refers to a flailing, twirling, and searching of the being to grapple with the true nature of reality and the divorce of its roots from the Earth. With this new body of work, Yata offers a warning to her viewers to be more conscious, and be more present in the ways we interact with our world.  “To have a change in energy is a change in thinking- how we view one another, how we treat one another is how we treat the Earth,” Yata says. Her oil paintings are ripe with images of a spiritual paradise, her own strange and surrealistic Garden of Eden, in which nude forms merge and cohabitate with animals like tropical birds and mythological creatures. Psychedelic colors are used to convey a beautiful energy, while displays of dance and ritual reveal rebellion against a dark energy, such as industry and destruction.

The place in between

Erica Williams Illustration + Design

Erica Williams is an artist who lives and works in Minneapolis, MN. She is known for her attention to detail, macabre tendencies, and subtle romanticism with nature and lore. Being mostly self-taught she strives to incorporate elements of fine art and design into her illustrations. Most often she is influenced by art nouveau, traditional printing methods, street art, and typography. Recently Erica has been creating screen printed posters and apparel, letterpress prints, and work for group exhibitions. via

For more check out her Instagram.

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Hand-crafted Mirrored Wolf Head By GOODWOODWORKSHOP On Etsy

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Corsets are very finicky, very fitted, very individualized garments, so even more so than other pieces you might encounter in costume-making.  As such you should always make a mock-up before cutting into your fancy fabric with a pattern that may not fit.

That said, corsets are a pain in the ass to put together so doing a full and proper mock-up is also a pain in the ass.  A proper corset has at least two layers, with boning channels, with (preferably) steel boning cut to size for each channel.  Aka lots of work just for a test fit. Not everyone has the time to do this 2-3 times, so we take a few shortcuts.

Some corset mock-up hacks to save time and tears:

Instead of cutting your steel, capping it, and possibly finding out you’ve cut it the wrong size (and wasting it!), use plastic heavy duty zipties.  Durability doesn’t matter if all you’re doing is testing the fit.  Your local hardware store and Amazon sells them.

Instead of making a multi-layer mock up with real boning channels to stick my zip ties in, I get super macguyver and tape them to the inside of the corset, along the seamlines where they would normally go.  Masking tape is good for this because it will usually stick to muslin but can be peeled off a bit when I’m making adjustments.  Just make sure you tape it carefully, along the full pressed out length of the seam.

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