Seeing Landscapes

sculpture | Elizabeth Shriver

Flatland II by Aydin Büyükta

A series of images by Turkish digital artist and photographer Aydin Büyükta inspired by Edwin Abbott’s book “Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions.

The Art of Ray Morimura

Ray Morimura is a graduate of Tokyo Gakugei University, where he studied oil painting. Originally his works were geometric-style abstractions. But later he was inspired by Shigeru Hatsuyama and Sumio Kawakami, and began to study woodblock techniques. Unlike most other Japanese woodblock printmakers, he uses oil-based inks to create these detailed images.

His technique is to carve both 6mm thick plywood blocks and 3mm thick blocks laminated with P-tile, a flooring material. The “linocut” process permits quite complex designs, which are printed on mulberry bark kozo paper. Essentially each color requires a separate block, and separate inking. Some blocks are printed with solid colors, while others include bokashi or a gradation of color. Of his work, Morimura says “printing demands total concentration as a single hair or dust can ruin a print. I usually clean my studio thoroughly and wait to begin the printing process until after midnight when it is quiet. With prints one can never be certain of the outcome until the final print is completed. There is always the unexpected, which makes it all the more intriguing. As with Zen and ink paintings, I hope something spiritual, in a contemporary sense, can be expressed in these landscape works.”

Learn more about Ray Morimura here.

La tectónica, definida como la construcción en base a respetar la nobleza del material, siempre une profundamente una obra con su ubicación; la hace pertinente y la adecúa en muchos niveles. El interesante contraste entre un diseño de geometría fuerte, abstracta, y su materialización en base a materiales vernaculares es una de las puntas de lanza del diseño arquitectónico de estos tiempos. Y cuando además el terreno, con su topografía, forma parte del proyecto, termina por convertir a la obra en parte del paisaje en que se inserta.

Income Inequality in Chicago by Herwig Scherabon

Lombard Street is known as one of the most crookedest street in the world, alongside Vermont street which is also in San Francisco. Vermont street is steeper but has fewer turns.

Taken with the Pentax 645z @ricoh_imaging Snapchat: @tobyharriman