The Whole World and Me

This is a text written by the photographer on her website. It just made me love her and her work even more!!

« "Beauty will save the world"

Fyodor Dostoyrvsky

"The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man."

Endless garlands of flowers

curleed around the borders of my note pads when I was a school girl. And thousands of roses were cut out from my mother's gardening books. At the Academy of Arts, flowers as large as life were painted on my canvasses. There were always flowers, They flourished in the self-portraits of the eighties and gre bigger in the flower wallpapers made in the nineties.

You can see a whole world in flowers. Lush and strangely erotic tableau entice you into another dimension. Huge mirrors, elaborate glass vases, rich draperies, fruit and cut blooms are used to make these 'paitings'.

As Baudelaire says "Get drunk: on wine, poetry or cirtur". Imagine lingering and languishing in these fresh, sultry and lucid landscapes. I love this sensual state. To lose myself, to deliver myself as in a love affair, Reality doesn't matter. When making photos I get lost in the scenes as if the flowers were caressing me in the gulfs of the sea. »

As you already know, I have a thing for skulls. So I was delighted when I stumbled upon the work of Tom French.

An english artist whose work is predominantly figurative, combining detailed photorealism with strong elements of abstraction and surrealism, very much present in the work below.

The "Skull Paintings" are a beautiful and enigmatic series of oil paintings that mix the real and unreal in a sophisticated way.

A photographer based in Toronto who created this amazing series of animal/human photographs.

Such a cool idea!!!

How I like to discover new artists and talented people around this world... More so when they are catapulted through mediums such as Intagram, Facebook, or others. 

It never fails to impress me how much power and reach these social networks have, for better or for worse  we are all really connected.

So this Belgium based photographer, Manon Wethly, shoots traditional european landscapes using airborne beverages. From coffee, to milk, juice and other beverages, she uses the liquids and the colors to get the perfect mix of form and the result it's just AMAZING!! Oh... and she shoots mainly with her iphone!!!!

Follow her on Instagram: @manonwethly and check her blog here

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You know I love to discover new artists and also new mediums used to express beauty.

This was a great surprise: The german artist called Eno Henze.

The images below are from several different series and are laser drawings on photo paper. I would love to know this technique, I just love these images, how they float.... Inspirational!

Find out more here.