Living Together in Paradise - Diorama by Nguyen Manh Hung

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Vietnam based contemporary artist Nguyen Manh Hung did "Living Together in Paradise" diorama sculpture in 2011 now showing at The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art taking place in Brisbane, Australia.

I was born and raised for 20 years in an apartment block in the Vietnamese capital city of Hanoi. Contemporary thinking might see this urban structure as one that isolates people even while living at such close quarters. I experienced it more as a complex "village" stacked vertically rather than spread out horizontally.

"Living Together in Paradise" is an extension and improvement of this urban village and living space. One where farming, growing vegetables and upgraded living conditions prevail. A place where people share everything, but do not have much privacy. I asked myself: "Could angels live together in a paradise?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dh_nCGSijo4

Drawings by Cath Riley

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”The drawings are part of an on-going evolutionary process of exploration and development, and thus serve only to mark and represent a particular stage in my abilities and understanding. Current on-going experimental ‘drawing’ includes very large scale drawing, based around the human figure, which are very different in character from the pencil portrait and ‘flesh’ figure drawings which are featured here. Some of the new work is abstract in nature.” – Cath Riley

Illustrations by Bartosz Kosowski

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Blackbird Illustrations is an illustration studio run by Bartosz Kosowski - an artist based in Lodz, Poland. Dealing mostly with portraits and editorial illustration, he has cooperated with such Polish magazines as “Gazeta Wyborcza”, “Machina” and “Przekroj” as well as a number of international clients and institutions.

Bewitching Landscapes by Delaney Allen

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"Texan photographer Delaney Allen has one of the most bewitching photographic portfolios we’ve ever laid eyes on. Thick with rich landscapes and shots of turbulent seas, interspersed with abstract close-ups that give little clue to their construction, Delaney manages to transform everything he scrutinises into strangely familiar but equally distant scenes. " via It's Nice That

Anamorphic sculptures Jonty Hurwitz

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You may remember Dali worked with anamorphic images that were recreated on a glossy surface of a metal tube (also the huge one sculpture in Figueres city featuring Dali's face). As for Salvador Dali he did pictures and all mathematics by himself, as for modern figurative sculptor Jonty Hurwitz, computing is a first thing before he begins to create complex anamorphic sculptures. That's clear the process cannot rely only on hands and an eye. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=W3SIEt37FjI

For the anamorphic pieces its an algorithmic thing, distorting the original sculptures in 3D space using 2πr or πr3 (cubed). Much of it is mathematical, relying on processing power. There is also a lot of hand manipulation to make it all work properly too as spacial transformation have a subtle sweet spot which can only be found by eye. Generally I will 3D scan my subject in a lab and then work the model using Mathematica or a range of 3D software tools. I think the π factor is really important in these pieces. We all know about this irrational number but the anamorphic pieces really are a distortion of a “normal” sculpture onto an imaginary sphere with its centre at the heart of the cylinder.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3hAojDjNhA&feature=player_embedded&list=UUsJTahxI36FEd4dKjOdZdpQ

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