Black and White Photography by Nathan Wirth Nathan Wirth, a...

Black and White Photography by Nathan Wirth

Nathan Wirth, a native San Franciscan, is a self-learned photographer who uses a variety of techniques– including long exposure, infrared, and intentional camera movement– to express his unending wonder of the fundamental fact of existence. Wirth, who earned both his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in English Literature from San Francisco State University, brings a deep appreciation of poetry to his explorations of place (especially the sea). Poets such as George Oppen, James Schuyler, Seamus Heaney, Lorine Niedecker, Elizabeth Bishop, William Wordsworth, Robert Frost, and George Mackay Brown have played a fundamental role in shaping his attention to the things and places that he photographs. Often returning to the same locations many times, Wirth seeks to explore the silence and the sublimity of those places. Wirth makes his living teaching English Composition at City College of San Francisco. 

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Paintings by Chloe Early Chloe Early born 1980 is a...

Paintings by Chloe Early

Chloe Early born 1980 is a London-based artist who creates beautiful paintings exploring the themes of weightlessness and gravity. Working in oils on linen and aluminium panel, Chloe has developed a unique style that is simultaneously lush and raw. The romantic and the gritty meet in her paintings, which tease out a distinctively poetic worldview through the juxtaposition of extremes.

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Surreal Artworks In Nature By Scarlett Hooft...

Surreal Artworks In Nature By Scarlett Hooft Graafland

Inhabiting the border between straight photography, performance and sculpture Scarlett Hooft Graafland’s photographs are records of highly cheorographed live performances at deserted places on earth. Works this 34-year-old Dutch photographer are different from those published in National Geographic. Take a look…   

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nonconcept: Concept Glass House, Milan, Italy by Santambrogio...

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Concept Glass House, Milan, Italy by Santambrogio Milano.

Sculptures by Beverly Mayeri Beverly Mayeri is a studio...

Sculptures by Beverly Mayeri

Beverly Mayeri is a studio artist living in the Bay Area with over 30 years experience as an established ceramic sculptor. She earned a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MA in sculpture at San Francisco State University.  Her sculptures often “bridge the psychological, the political and the sensuous within one hybrid form.”

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Capturing Breath - Photography by Tomohide IkeyaPhotographer...

Capturing Breath - Photography by Tomohide Ikeya

Photographer Tomohide Ikeya created and underwater series called “Breathe”.  His work explores the human ability to persevere even in the face of death. 

When we are covered in water, the fear inside of us comes to the surface. Beyond this, the condition of not being able to breathe reveals our attachment to life. I capture this entirely unpredictable scene of struggle.

I superimpose this highly restrictive scene onto human “life.” People encounter all kinds of troubles during their lives. Even if someone knocks down a barrier preventing them from doing something with their own hands, this will not change the fundamental essence of our own limitations. These limitations, too, are part of “living.”

Perhaps the essence of life, granted to everyone, is to live while struggling against death. Math or science can’t change this. Life is not just about visible beauty, but also about true strength, which we have from birth. (VIA)

The goes to great lengths to explore these ideas.  His photos are not only beautiful, but also on another level disturbing.  This is the mark of great art. Thanks to Pondly.

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