The evolution of the Latin alphabet, courtesy of data artist Matt Baker. For a deeper dive, see the out-of-print treasure Shapes for Sounds, a comprehensive visual history of the alphabet.
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🔵 Here’s a little BLUESDAY inspiration from Anish Kapoor, currently on view in Infinite Blue.
Anish Kapoor is well known for abstract sculptures that range widely in both scale and material, including several monumental public installations. He often experiments with visual effects of depth-perception and dimensionality.
His recent series of concave mirror works, like this one in blue and pink, employs rich, blended colors and highly polished surfaces. They reflect and distort their surroundings and their viewers, while acting simultaneously as self-contained, engrossing art objects. Such optical ambiguity aligns with Kapoor’s ongoing interest in approaching—or creating illusions of—the infinite, adding texture to this exhibition’s aptly titled exploration of the color blue.
See this work on view in Infinite Blue throughout April.
Anish Kapoor (British, born India, 1954). Mirror (Pink to Mipa 5 Blue), 2016 Stainless steel and lacquer. Courtesy of the artist and Lisson Gallery
I am editing a pop up magazine for Medium called Unruly Bodies. You can read my intro here https://medium.com/s/unrulybodies/the-body-is-unruly-15fa352904cf and the first six essays here: https://medium.com/unrulybodies
Salt ponds are seen on San Francisco Bay in northern California, USA. Here water is channelled into large ponds and exits through natural evaporation. The salt that remains can then be collected. The massive ponds get their vibrant reddish colors from the algae that thrive in the extremely salty water. Approximately 80% of this wetlands area – approximately 16,500 acres – has been developed for salt mining.
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