• ART

    Photography by May Xiong

    “I think that I take little bit of everything that I enjoy and take snippets of it and piece them together as I go. Most of the time my work is just for the aesthetic appeal.” – May Xiong. See selected works below:

  • ART,  KULTUR

    Yopparai Tengoku (Drunkard’s Heaven) by Kenji Kawamoto

    “”My photographs are a record of the people who have reached their limit and exhausted their strength after the daily grind. Everyone has different burdens, but everyone lives at a frantic pace. People drink with friends as a reward for the hard day’s work and face a new day’s work like warriors. A lot of people struggle through such work situations. I took these pictures with a true feeling of respect for the people in them. I don’t believe the state my subjects are in is shabby in any way. I can feel they have experienced hardships and fatigue to end up like this.” (artist statement)

  • ART

    The Vacanti Man by Rob Elford

    The Vacanti Man explores an allegorical visual narrative of pixelated body horror inspired by the experiments of Charles Vacanti, who cultivated human limbs under a subject’s skin. It explores Freudian, quasi-religious projections of masculinity, which are represented by the reoccurring imagery of the eye and the hand. The hands and arms originate from 3d scans of actual limbs. These have then been subjected to a literal process of decimation, where a computerised algorithm reduces the original scan data into simplified tessellated shapes. This decimation explores the reductionist nature of masculinized gender norms and current political trends of backwards facing social conservatism. Das Projekt besteht aus einer Reihe von übertriebenen und…