Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Amazing ephemeral art

Someone sent me an email of some amazing ephemeral art, an artist called Liu Bolin. He has painted himself to blend into backgrounds. You have to wonder how long it takes and why people do it. But, I must admit, it is well worth the viewing. Here is a link.
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4 comments:

parlance said...

They were talking on The Philosopher's Zone today about some butter sculptures. The interviewer asked how come they don't melt (they're in Australia somewhere, on permanent display, I think) but the sculptor, with slightly limited English, didn't seem to answer. He said something about mixing in ghee, I think.

Mysterious.

October 13, 2009
Mary said...

Thanks Parlance. I tried to find that episode and found it as an episode of The Spirit of Things, not The Philosopher's Zone. I don't know how to link from comments, so I will do another post about it.

October 13, 2009
theregatha said...

A very exciting extension of the idea of "being a fly on the wall": at least one is not at risk a being swatted. Perhaps?

October 14, 2009
Mary said...

Hi theregatha (how DO you say that?), he could listen in to all sorts of amazing things, but he would have to keep very still, wouldn't he?

October 14, 2009

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