Thursday, 3 April 2014

Barcodes who weep. Social art project Kanselmi Christina (Kristina Cancelmi) art gallery online


Barcodes who weep. Social art project Kanselmi Christina (Kristina Cancelmi) art gallery online

Barcodes Kanselmi Christina (Kristina Cancelmi)

Go abroad to work as waitresses, housekeepers, nannies, dancers and secretaries, and are in filthy brothels, without documents, relations with the outside world - and the chance to get out of here and get home if not, then at least to the embassy. Such is the fate of millions of gullible women, who tend to go with unfavorable foreign country to a brighter future, provide for themselves and their family, build a career abroad, find a wealthy spouse. Some manage to escape, and then the media get their stories and warnings for those who are thinking about leaving ... Artist Kanselmi Kristina (Kristina Cancelmi) making and contribute to the mission of protecting women from "traffickers" - is it an art project for the company The Polaris Project, barcodes are crying.
Most often the victims "slavers" are gullible and naive people, and it is mainly women and children. That's why Christina barcodes portray them weeping figures. People for sale, numbered, signed and labeled with bar codes, are pasted with price tags and packed according to customer requirements - as if lifeless, inanimate items on the shelves in the store ... This provincial whether fate want to discover these people?
Barcodes who weep. Social art project Kanselmi Christina (Kristina Cancelmi) art gallery online

Barcodes Kanselmi Christina (Kristina Cancelmi)


Barcodes who weep. Social art project Kanselmi Christina (Kristina Cancelmi) art gallery online

Barcodes Kanselmi Christina (Kristina Cancelmi)

Kristina Cancelmi makes accent on American citizens, but it is known that most of the "traffickers" cashing it in our women from Eastern Europe - Russia, Ukraine, Belarus. No wonder bought "slaves" universally called Natasha. Sadly to say it, but that our girls and women, regardless of age, suffer from a lack of money and work, and are therefore forced to seek his fortune on the side ... And this quest for happiness sometimes leads them in the opposite direction.
Barcodes who weep. Social art project Kanselmi Christina (Kristina Cancelmi) art gallery online

Barcodes Kanselmi Christina (Kristina Cancelmi)


Barcodes who weep. Social art project Kanselmi Christina (Kristina Cancelmi) art gallery online

Barcodes Kanselmi Christina (Kristina Cancelmi)

Trafficking in human beings - not a fairy tale, but the real problem, which help to solve even the artists. As they say, everything in our power ...

Monday, 31 March 2014

Living wooden sculptures: Tree shaping dali art for sale


Living wooden sculptures: Tree shaping dali art for sale

Living wooden sculptures

Sculptures made of wood - it's not necessarily rude ancient idols, small netsuke and sullen-lesovichki stumps in kindergarten. Not always necessary to destroy a living plant to give it a new unusual shape - this assumption underlies interesting hobby called Tree shaping, or arborsculpture - or if about to translate it into Russian, drevomodelirovanie.

Living wooden sculptures: Tree shaping dali art for sale

Tree shaping: living wooden sculptures


In fact, a hobby is no longer young, green. It is very similar to the traditional, long-standing views of tree care - such as the same bonsai. But a special "chip" Tree shaping is that the green crown - the seemingly pleasant to the eye of the tree - pales into insignificance. But the trunk becomes the object of intricate manipulations.

Living wooden sculptures: Tree shaping dali art for sale

Wooden sculptures around us


"Architects" live wood sculptures begin with, pick a suitable, reasonably flexible plastic and wood. And then in the course are special tools, by which the barrel is rotated, bent, cleave, splice again. The resulting structure may eventually be difficult before that remind wicker chair. Although not all chasing abundance weaves: perhaps the most popular in the Tree shaping topic - a simple "of Pacific" and "man."

Living wooden sculptures: Tree shaping dali art for sale

Wooden sculptures


The main difficulty when working on live wood sculpture is that it requires a really extraordinary patience. They say to get English lawn, you need to take care of him 400 years. Of course, the trees are specially selected for modeling fast-growing, but they make a mess with more than one year, so that this kind of leisure came to some very very long-lived inhabitants of the forest - for example, Tolkien's elves.

Living wooden sculptures: Tree shaping dali art for sale

Living wooden sculptures


For several hundred years appear like living sculptures (or more correctly - the structure?). Golden Hands innate gardeners, fantasy and angelic patience - that will help create a masterpiece that will last more than one generation. It is certainly better than writing on the barrel knife "Vova Masha + = ...".

Living wooden sculptures: Tree shaping dali art for sale

Wooden sculptures - the most durable