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Saturday, December 5, 2015
Preservationists Fight To Save Forgotten French Castle Château...
Preservationists Fight To Save Forgotten French Castle Château de la Mothe-Chandeniers
These days it seems like castles only exist in storybooks and Disney movies. What happened to the foreboding dwellings of our wealthiest ancestors? The truth of the matter is, while there are still many castles in Europe and a few in the United States, many have fallen into disrepair and ruin over time. However, in the Poitou-Charentes region of France, a group of preservationists are trying to save a 13th century castle that is slowly being reclaimed by nature. The story behind the abandoned property is just as fascinating as what’s left standing today.
In the 13th Century, the Château de la Mothe-Chandeniers was the home of the notorious and powerful Barclay family. Although not royalty themselves, they enjoyed a close relationship with several generations of kings.
One can only hope this magnificent property will be saved before nature completely takes over. Much More Here
Storybook Without Words by Kirsty Mitchell Described as a...
Storybook Without Words by Kirsty Mitchell
Described as a multifaceted artist, award winning British fine art photographer Kirsty Mitchell draws on her past careers in fashion design and costume making, to produce images of beguiling dream-like worlds all shot in the English landscape surrounding her home.
Kirsty describes her approach as “Fantasy for Real” spending months meticulously handcrafting her characters costumes and props to coincide with the bloom of wild flowers, and the seasonal extremes of her local environment. Some pieces have taken up to 5 months to create every element by hand, and over a year to plan.
After a decade of working as a fashion designer, in 2008 Kirsty returned to her early love of photography and began a new and deeply emotional connection with the medium during the treatment of her mother’s terminal cancer. Following her tragic loss, 9 months later Kirsty immersed herself into what became an unexpected and life changing series entitled “Wonderland”; intended as a book in her mother’s memory.
The sudden international recognition for her work led Kirsty to leave her fashion career behind in 2011, to pursue her future as a fine art photographer with articles being published by the BBC News, Vogue Italia, Harper’s Bazaar, The Guardian, Spiegel Online, The Picture Professional and Germany’s ‘Stern’ magazine to name a few. via
You can see much more of Mitchell’s photography on her Flickr.
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InfernoTypeface infused with fire elements by Daniel Reuber,...
Inferno
Typeface infused with fire elements by Daniel Reuber, german student in media-communication design.
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Recent works from Spanish photographer Jesús M. Chamizo admiring...
Recent works from Spanish photographer Jesús M. Chamizo admiring the mid-20th century architecture developed and scatted across Madrid by renown architect Antonio Palacios.
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Hung-Hsin Lin: Lost Inside Hung-Hsin Lin (林宏信) was born in...
Hung-Hsin Lin: Lost Inside
Hung-Hsin Lin (林宏信) was born in Yunlin, Taiwan in 1975. He received his MFA from the National Taiwan University of Arts. Before being a full-time artist, Lin had been working as an advertising designer for almost 15 years. He borrows the character “flâneur” from Walter Benjamin’s (1892-1940) works as the main subject in his works. With the face painted with white powder & the costume corresponding to the environment. The “flâneur” in Lin’s paintings is a complicated self-reflection of the artist. Through these portraits in various sizes, Lin attempts to challenge viewers’ visual experience & the way they see a painting. Facebook | Twitter
via: Liang Gallery (Taipei, Taiwan)
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