Beyond the Picture

My ceramics colleague, Robert Boyer, shares my fascination with obsessive, repetitive patterns and textures. So I wasn’t surprised that he drew my attention to Jen Stark, the Miami-based paper/color/X-acto artist:

She discusses in a video on her site how she got started with the obsessive paper sculptures. She went to Paris for a year-long art fellowship, [...]

I like people who see things others don’t. This guy collects on his blog images of people and objects that, well, look alike.  It’s not just the “Separated at Birth” concept, however. Aref-Adib has collected some unusual pairs, like this one (Banksy/calligraphy):

Here’s a Mondrian/”Mind the gap” juxtaposition that I like a lot:

There’s also one of [...]