#and the perceptual art installations by Michael Murphy

[gisellelx]

Twilight Advent Calendar, Day 11

Dec. 11 - Besides painting, what art forms does Esme enjoy? How do you imagine her art room/setup looks? (Fan artists, want to show us?)

Masterpost/Prompts

In addition to painting (and photography, 100% agreed with @needahugfromesme's fabulous art), Esme likes to combine her building skill with her creative eye. Mind you, I think it took her a very long time to a) value her art as much as those around her did b) get over the idea that there were things women shouldn't do—painting has always felt more womanly—and c) feel comfortable with her vampire nature enough to exploit it but these days, some of her most intriguing art pieces are absolutely INSANE installations. Like, "managed to weld a light in sideways from a forty-foot ceiling" insane. She likes the interface of architecture and sculpture, and she likes to do things with light and shadow. She often recruits Rosalie to help her with the metallurgy.

While some of her most unique installations are large and complicated structures of metal, wood, and light which seem to defy gravity thanks to her ability to hang from a ceiling by a finger for hours on end, one of her most powerful, and personal, hung tiny pieces of metal vertically so that the eye would take in different shapes depending on whether they were viewed from one angle or from ninety degrees to its side. The metal was arranged such so that it spelled words: RAPE/RESILIENCE was one; VICTIM/SURVIVOR was another; and so on.

It made her husband weep. Then they placed it in the Moco in Barcelona.

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Michael Murphy

Michael Murphy is an American artist, sculptor and pioneer of the Perceptual Art movement. Murphy became widely known during the 2008 U.S. presidential election, after creating the first portrait of candidate Barack Obama in 2007 that influenced thousands of artists to contribute to the “Art for Obama” movement.

His approach is to challenge the viewer's boundaries using multidimensional techniques in order to create three-dimensional renderings of flat images

Murphy's sculptural feat "Damage" consists of 1,200 ping pong balls painted black and suspended from the ceiling, when viewed from the correct angle the balls coalesce into an expanded graphic of an assault rifle. The physical arrangement of the piece seems at first unorganized, until it is viewed from the proper perspective when a fully formed assault rifle comes into full view.

Some of the works of the sculptor are part of the Perceptual Shift series. Black and white images are produced using floating elements on a white surface. The installation environment becomes the canvas on which to create the image. When the seemingly chaotic array of objects suddenly aligns to form an image, the work creates a perceptual shift in the viewer. The three-dimensional space changes and becomes flat.

[watchilove]

Michael Murphy’s main body of work emphasises perspective: his installations require the viewer to change position in order to fully appreciate them. Fusing classical art-making techniques with digital processes and manual skills, he has invented an entirely new formula for rendering two-dimensional images as suspended, three-dimensional mobiles. These anamorphic installations comprise a multitude of objects hanging at various heights and distances. Depending on the viewer’s line of sight, they appear to change form: from a seemingly random and chaotic jumble of shapes they coalesce into a highly organised and recognisable image. Thus, the viewer experiences a perceptual shift, breaking down the barrier between the art medium itself and the subjective experience. “We are delighted to be collaborating with Michael Murphy. His artistic installation requires extreme precision, a value that we share at Jaeger-LeCoultre. Our watchmakers throw their heart and soul into every ingenious sketch, every oscillation of the balance wheel, every escapement wheel – always pushing the boundaries of precision.” says Catherine Rénier, Chief Executive Officer of Jaeger-LeCoultre. For this new work, the Maison has collaborated with an artist whose work is often based on images of instantly recognisable cultural icons. “The Reverso has this iconic graphic identity and that’s the type of content that I often work with,” says Michael Murphy. The timepiece chosen to be represented through Spacetime is the newly released Reverso Tribute Nonantième, which expresses the time in an entirely different manner on each of its faces. The artist immediately saw a parallel between this new Reverso and his anamorphic works, many of which have two distinct sides, showing two entirely different images when viewed from different positions. https://www.instagram.com/p/CN0N5aXr_Dz/?igshid=1ad38cbzzdwdb

[jessicakehoe]

This Week’s Need-to-Know Beauty News

WestJet Is Getting Some Fancy New Cruelty-Free In-Flight Amenities

WestJet announced a new partnership this week with two Canadian brands, vegan leather-makers Mat & Nat and organic skincare line Province Apothecary, for a brand new cruelty-free amenity kit now available to all business class passengers flying on WestJet’s Boeing 787 Dreamliners. The vegan leather Mat & Nat cases will contain travel-sized versions of popular Province Apothecary products, including a 10ml hand and body lotion, a refreshing towelette with bergamot, lavender and frankincense, their Repairing + Conditioning Lip Balm and an eye mask—plus your requisite in-flight socks and ear plugs.

The Body Shop Just Announced a New Initiative to Fight Plastic Pollution

The Body Shop has been on top of their recycling game this year. In addition to a recent partnership with recycling giant TerraCycle, the British brand just announced a new grassroots approach to fighting plastic pollution, focusing on the people who work to sort waste on a daily basis: waste pickers. In a collaborative effort with Plastics for Change, The Body Shop’s Community Trade Recycled Plastic initiative will support waste pickers in Bengaluru, India by offering fair and consistent wages and sanitary working conditions, with a commitment to buy 250 tonnes of plastic in the first year. The program will benefit up to 2,500 workers, and their work product will in turn be used in the packaging of 60ml, 250ml and 750ml bottles, amounting to a grand total of 580 tonnes of new plastic saved yearly.

Plastic is a problem. We know it's time to get smarter with the way we use plastic because when used right, it's sustainable for people and the planet. Watch our video & discover how we're tackling the plastic crisis differently. https://t.co/AT05fpWRA3 #CommunityTradePlastic pic.twitter.com/JDDOI4F1ha

— The Body Shop UK (@TheBodyShopUK) May 9, 2019

Today we unveiled an art installation of Dolly, a female waste picker, by perceptual artist Michael Murphy to celebrate the launch of our NEW Community Trade recycled plastic. Discover more online: https://t.co/AT05fpFgbt #CommunityTradePlastic Photo credit: Jeff Spicer/PA Wire pic.twitter.com/SEeQ2NBCLx

— The Body Shop UK (@TheBodyShopUK) May 10, 2019

There’s a New Skincare Line Using Spider Silk for Anti-Aging

Arachnophobics, beware: trigger warning ahead. Luxury skincare line Genetica is touting the benefits of real spider silk to reduce the signs of aging and keep skin hydrated, with technology borrowed from biotech company Spidey Tek. “Our process produces spider silk proteins as nanoparticles,” Spidey Tek Chief Science Offering Dr. Randy Lewis said in a statement. “Due to their incredibly small size, these particles are able to penetrate pores, skin lines and cracks much better than other face creams.” The line is also natural, biodegradable and, according to the company, vegan—though actual vegans may have something to say about that—making it a biodegradable alternative to micro-plastics in exfoliators. We just never want to see the inside of their lab.

Male-Only Makeup Brand War Paint Is Facing Some Major Backlash

Do men need their own separate lines of makeup? Maybe. Do they also need hyper-masculine marketing materials to go with it? Twitter thinks not. Made-for-men makeup line War Paint is facing a wave of criticism for a recent ad campaign they put out, featuring a heavily tattooed, highly muscular man dabbing product from a small black jar onto his skin. The clip doesn’t actually show what product is in the pot—the brand sells concealer, tinted moisturizer, foundation, anti-shine powder, bronzer and makeup tools—but does feature a very necessary close-up of a skull ring.

It's not water, it's LIQUID DEATH It's not makeup, it's WAR PAINT It's not an earplug, it's a SKULL SCREW It's not a donut, it's a BRONUT

but it's definitely fragile masculinity https://t.co/MQfw2cSEOi

— andi zeisler (@andizeisler) May 9, 2019

https://twitter.com/SsssamanthaaMUA/status/1126490128988303360

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Watch Brooklyn Artist Michael Murphy Bring The Next-Generation Toyota Highlander To Life Through 3D Art Installation

Watch Brooklyn Artist Michael Murphy Bring The Next-Generation Toyota Highlander To Life Through 3D Art Installation

Augmented reality artist Michael Murphy is known for taking just pieces of paper or posterboard and using it to create full-blown 3D illusions. The Ohio-born and New York-bred artist calls it ‘Perceptual Art’ has numerous permanent installations around the world. His latest work is a teaser of Toyota’s all-new Highlander as he’s taken a basic design rendering and transformed it into a 3D…

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The Lexus of Love Letters PLANO, Texas (March 8, 2018) — Today, “Letters” — a 3-D installation by perceptual art pioneer Michael Murphy — is revealed as part of a new marketing campaign celebrating the Lexus guest experience. The 16-foot art piece, which hangs from six ceiling panels and a steel frame, features more than 2,000 suspended pieces of origami, each constructed from individual thank you letters from guests to their Lexus dealerships. From one vantage point, the origami art pieces create the shape of the all-new 2018 LS sedan, while from another vantage point it takes the shape of the Lexus logo.

http://pressroom.toyota.com/releases/the+lexus+love+letters.htm