Seth Clark creates collages focused on deteriorating architecture that appear dignified in their state of ruin. Louise McRae incorporates discarded building materials and environmental debris into sculptural wall assemblages. Vasco Mourao illustrates densely detailed fictional cities that incorporate real buildings.

5. People

8. John Stezaker

12. Khamara's practice to date has
sought to disrupt photography's
smooth, two-dimensional
surfaces by building sculptures
and collages entirely out of
photographs. A flat image,
usually figurative, is
transformed either by slicing
directly into the photographic
skin and pulling features into
three dimensional form, or by
taking multiple shots of a single
subject which are then collaged.

26. Similar to a camera capturing multiple
exposures in a single image, artist Katie
Grinnan created this sculptural time-lapse
of her body moving through a daily yoga
routine using sand, plastic, and enamel. The
end result is representative of both time and
form as each split second is layered onto the
last creating what is both a singular figure
and many

34. Environment

35. Seth Clark

36. American artist Seth Clark creates intriguing mixed media collages focused on
deteriorating architecture.
“I see an inherent honesty in the face of my subject. These man-made structures,
designed to be huge forces of permanence, are now collapsing in on themselves. Among
all of the clutter—the shards of wood and layers of rubble—there remains a gentle
resolve. It is as if the buildings were content with their circumstance. As I work, I study
these structures incessantly. They are on the brink of ruin, yet appear dignified in their
state. Something very energized and present is trying to escape out of a slow history of
abandonment.

38. Louise McRae’s sculptural,
wall-based assemblages
bring discarded building
materials and the debris of
her rural environment into
new frames of reference.
McRae’s practice involves
painting upon scrap timber
which she then splits into
shards and reassembles into
matrixes of varying shapes
and formats.

54. Vasco Mourao is an architect and illustrator originally from Portugal
who now lives and works in Barcelona. His densely illustrated cities
and structures are drawn entirely by hand and while all are of course
fictional places, they often incorporate real buildings. For instance, in
the most dense piece above entitled New Yorker one can find the
Chrysler building, the Met, the Whitney, and the Guggenheim among
others

55. Andreas Gursky

56. Natural World

61. The shapes of Rorschach tests are intentionally flawed and
ambiguous — allowing us to draw conclusions about a
person’s psyche based on what organic matter they claim to
see growing in the inkblots. In her series, Mirrors,
photographer Traci Griffin flips that concept. By applying
symmetry to natural subjects, they are rendered unnatural
and too perfect for this world.
Traci Griffin

62. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isnuLXjzvNw
Daniel Siering and Mario
Shu in Potsdam, Germany.
The duo wrapped a tree in
plastic sheeting and then
mimicked the background
landscape using detailed
spray paint strokes to
create the illusion of a tree
cut in half.

64. Susan Hillier – botanical illustrator

65. Patterns found in nature – symmetry / organised structure

66. The organised, patterned
structure of a wasp’s nest
inspired Andy
Goldsworthy to create his
sculptures…

77. Man-Made/Objects

84. Joseph Cornell

85. Artist Robert Wechsler (previously) was recently comissioned by
the The New Yorker to create a series of coin sculptures for their
October 14th money-themed edition. Wechsler used a jeweler’s
saw to cut precise notches in coins from various currencies and
then joined them together in several geometric forms

86. Teodosijev, a photographer, has used still life photography and the contents of
storage drawers to try and record something of his father. He says "Can you
capture the soul of a beloved one"
Tom
Teodosijev

87. Although this image by Bela Borsodi (nsfw) appears to be four
separate images, it’s actually a single photograph, with all of the
objects perfectly aligned to create an optical illusion. The shot was
used as cover art for an album titled Terrain by VLP. See it all come
together in the video above…
https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=oJGN6sX5Ekg

88. In Things Come Apart, Todd McLellan exposes the inner working of 50
objects and 21,959 individual components as he reflects on the permanence
of vintage machines built several decades ago—sturdy gadgets meant to be
broken and repaired—versus today’s manufacturing trend of limited use
followed by quick obsolescence.

94. Layering or collaging different materials or media together to create images

97. John Chamberlain Tambourinfrappe

102. Michael Brennand -Wood

103. Bruce Gray Assemblage

104. Zac Freeman started
creating assemblage
artworks of this type in
1999. All artworks are
made entirely out of
collected junk, found
objects, and general
trash. By glueing the
bits of junk to a
wooden substrate, Zac
is able to form an
image, usually faces,
which only can be
seen at a distance