Dancing Potatoes

 This is the potato music box:

Juliette Warmenhoven of NL created this project to showcase the beauty and spectacle of plant growth. Juxtposing sprouting potatoes or bonsai trees with various shades of seafoam-colored plastic pleases me greatly. It has that doughy, silicone, Matthew Barney feel.
Note: Though she was inspired by found plastic objects, she made all of the components herself out of liquid plastic and fiberglass.

 

germination station:

 

 

If that's no enough, she also made these vases, inspired by insects and the meant to mimic their coatings with these custom glazes:

found on sightunseen, where you can read more about this project.

Her site, where you can see the book from whence these images came.

Fake Snow

From the book Fake Snow Collection by artist Heidi Neilson.
I especially like the aurora borealis storm in the fourth picture. Imagine looking out your window and seeing that blowing about the branches.

cargo cult

drawing by Ryan Leigh from here.

read what a cargo cult is on wikipedia.

Trees: keeping it apolitical for 360 million years

Zhao Zongzao, Land of Peng Lai, 1982

from here

want want want

Yago Hortal.

Matthew Barney, I still have a crush on you.

Apparently. Every time I look at the wall of straws in the recent Tara Donovan post, I just think, "My, this is nice, but it just reminds me of Matthew Barney. He has a way with whale blubber." Unfortunately there are precious few images of gloopy lipids online.