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Sur-Real Time… Dali-Inspired Clocks

The art historian in me cringed when I saw these Salvador Dali-inspired melting clocks described as “Art Nouveau”… (Yes. Someone did this. You can check for yourself if you don’t believe me.) Yet woefully attributed to the wrong genre or not, they are still … Continue reading

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A Sinking Feeling… Hannes Van Severen’s Furniture Art

Hannes Van Severen is a visual artist who lives and works in Ghent, Belgium. (Makes me proud to be a Belgian!) His work is unsettling yet appealing, based on daily life objects yet paradoxically useless. My favorite pieces are his furniture-based works; … Continue reading

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A Distorted Reality… Good Vibrations Cabinet

This is not photoshop. This is an actual, supposedly functional piece of furniture, made especially to look like a distorted photograph. I couldn’t resist featuring this; it is of course a lovely, surreal piece of design, but to me it … Continue reading

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Will Gurley’s Illusion Mirror

There is this scene in The Matrix, when Neo “wakes up” after taking the red pill, that he has a strange encounter with a mirror. That scene is exactly what Will Gurleys “Flect” mirror reminded me of. With a special … Continue reading

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And Doom Made Her a Dress… My latest painting

First thing I did on my first day of being a useful and worthy daughter: make a huge surreal painting of my delusion, the Riemann Hypothesis. She was friendly enough to model for it (she may be imaginary, but she’s … Continue reading

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Illusionary Shelving…

I like things that seem a bit distorted… Probably because around those, I feel less of a weirdo… Anyway, here are a few lovely finds of mine, that I would totally want in my house if only I had a … Continue reading

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