Lucas Simões is an artist living and working in Sao Paulo. The majority of his works revolve around the combination of both geometric and organic shapes overlaid to create curious patterns.
In this series he invited close friends to tell him a secret as he photographed them. His sole intention was to capture each persons expression as they told the secret. At the end of the photo session he chose 10 different pictures then cut and layered between acrylic sheets.
Artist Bovey Lee creates these beautiful illustrations by hand cutting them into Chinese rice paper. Her work has been exhibited in many museums including the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York, Museum Bellerive in Zurich, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Beijing.
Check out more of her amazing work here. Posted via Colossal.
![Swarm of Locusts Made of Money
Sipho Mabona, the talented origami artist we’ve featured here and here, just tipped us off to his newest installation. Now showing at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles until August 26, 2012 is The Plague, a fantastic swarm of locusts made entirely out of money!
As he says, “Money, our prime signifier of both ambition and perdition. Money has gone from being an elementary medium of exchange to being a means of exploitation: a colossal cloud of hot money [and incomprehensible financial instruments] buzzes above the global economy like a biblical swarm of locust. Thus money as bane. Yet money per se, plain as the one-dollar-bill, always retains its basic ability to function as a pragmatic unit of accounting for goods and services. Hence money as blessing.”
Each single specimen was folded from an uncut square of US currency sheet and the entire installation took Mabona 4 to 5 hours to complete. It will be on display, alongside approximately 150 other works from more than 40 international artists, in the museum’s exhibition Folding Paper: The Infinite Possibilities of Origami. It’s a thought-provoking look at the modern advances of origami through contemporary artworks, origami-related woodblock prints, murals, videos, an interactive origami-making station and even an origami dome tent that visitors may enter. This is the first major exhibition to explore the rich history of paper folding both in Japan and Europe.
Mabona Origami website](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0u64iUIv31qjqp10o1_400.jpg)
![Pop-Up Paper Model of NYC
Bring a miniature version of New York City right into your home with this paper model set by architect, designer, and modeler Naoki Terada. The multi-talented Tokyo-based artist owns an architectural firm and focuses on structural and interior design, as well as furniture and home accessories. Initially he used these models for work in the architecture firm but after many years and much popularity, he decided to make his clever miniature scenes available for purchase.
All of his model sets are scaled to 1/100 and the New York City set comes in black, white, or purple. Pop the pieces out of the pack and set up the city streets with basic shapes including people, dogs, squirrels, hotdog stands, subway stations, mailboxes, fire hydrants, bicycles, street signs, trash bins, even a police man on a horse. In addition to New York, Terada has many other sets including a Tokyo street, a soccer field, a zoo, and even pop-up greeting cards.
Naoki Terada’s websiteBuy the 1/100 Paper Model Set No. 6 New York here via [Spoon & Tamago]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0ddiotxIG1qjqp10o1_400.png)
