If you can’t get enough ikat in your life, you should definitely run over to Anthropologie and check out what they have to offer, especially in the furniture category. Do you think it would be too much to have just one room where everything was ikat? I don’t.
I can’t believe that I’ve never seen these drawings before – I came across them one day digging around on the internet for something and I was simply stunned. The colors, the attention to detail – it made my scientist/artist heart go pitter-patter.
It’s not always easy to find all of the pictures but I tracked down a site where the guy scanned all of the original pages of this amazing book, which you can find here. Happy hunting!
I’m always interested in ways of visualizing and bringing to life an abstract concept. This series of photographs by Jonathan Blaustein really embraces that challenge.
Here’s his artist statement:
“I’m interested in the way photography is used to deceive. Millions, if not billions of advertising dollars are spent annually photographing food and obfuscating reality. Fast food conglomerates are certainly the worst culprits, but everywhere we see glamorized versions of what we eat.
Food is clearly a potent symbol of wealth, power, health, and globalization for the 21st Century. Its value is determined by the price of oil, its transnational transport contributes to Global Warming, its ingredients entice America into obesity, and its production processes animals into floss and mush.
The photographs in this project attempt to strip back the artifice; to depict food items as they were sold, (minus packaging,) without styling, retouching, or artificial lighting. Each image represents a dollar’s worth of food purchased from various markets in New Mexico. The subjects exist as equivalent amounts of commodity, and nothing more. The resulting images allow for a meditation on the power and seductive nature of the photographic medium itself.”
