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Cherly Medow is a very patient artist.  After a dozen years working on the project Envision Habitat she has produced a gorgeous record of large birds include egrets, hawks, spoonbills, and flamingos.  Her works are composites - she photographs the birds and she photographs backgrounds and then very carefully crafts them together in a work of art.

“By taking the bird out of its photographic environment, I can place other images around him to tell the story of where he is, or where I imagine him to be. When there is an ah-ha moment, I am almost finished. I do not think about it; I create it.”  Cheryl Medow via Slate

Cherly Medow’s work captures the birds in a perfect state, somewhere between reality and imagination.  Thanks to Culture Trip.

Abstract Floral Paintings by Bobbie Burgers

Bobbie Burgers born in 1973, is a Canadian painter based in Vancouver. Her large-scale floral compositions rendered in an abstract style, capture the unique beauty and diverse color palettes exhibited by bouquets and other bunches of flowers. For more check out artist website.

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Tokyo Gifathon by James Curran

James Curran is a London based animation director and designer who creates his work under the SlimJim Studios name. Currently, he is staying in Tokyo throughout April and creates a new animation every day.

To keep up with his ongoing collection of animations, visit his Instagram, Tumblr or SlimJim Studios website.

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Ethereal Installations by Michelle Mckinney

U.K.-based Michelle Mckinney’s art is work of elegant simplicity which, in itself, is the first of many seductions into an engagement with a complex network of tensions. The work is bedded in the clear space between opposites; the movement captured in stillness; the fragility and ephemerality of nature captured in the strength and permanence of industrial, man-made materials; inexorable freedom within the clinically defined limitations of space. It is the dialogue that takes place between these polarities that engage so forcefully. 

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