Tree Bound Installations by Sculptor Keith Jennings

Sculptor Keith Jennings carves wise faces into trees, revealing each wooden tower's inner spirit. Jennings first embarked on his Tree Spirits project back in 1982 when he decided to creatively manipulate a tree in his backyard with a few hand tools. Starting out as a way to kill time on a budget, the artist wound up honing his craft. Jennings was later commissioned to apply his wood sculpting skills on a series of trees throughout St. Simons Island, located right off the coast of the state of Georgia.

Jennings took two to four days to sculpt each serene face throughout the forest, allowing them to intriguingly blend into their surroundings. (Of course, once they're spotted, it's hard not to notice their faces.) Each sculptural portrait emerges from its wooden post like a haunting sage, ready to impart some knowledge. The artist says that each face he carves into the wood is created entirely according to the tree. He insists, "I don’t have that much to do with it. The wood speaks to you, ya know?”

Jennings' Tree Spirits project is on display throughout St. Simons Island (along private and public property) and the artist has conveniently tracked each one on Google Map.

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Blinded Men Statues Ascending High into the Sky

Karma is an intriguing sculptural installation by Korean artist Do Ho Suh that presents countless men sitting atop one another while shielding each other's eyes. Like his Cause & Effect piece, which features a spectacular tornado of figurines, Karma presents figurative sculptures ascending into the sky like a human ladder. However, in addition to being perched on each other's shoulders, they are successively blinding one another

which leads one to wonder: Why? The artist has caught our attention over the years with misplaced houses, a robe made of dog tags, and symbolic floor installations; but it's his use of the human form that is most thought-provoking. His work continually questions one's identity and individuality by using the human body. These stainless steel men, though recognizably different entities, appear to move as one. While the piece is open for interpretation, it makes one question whether the idea behind it is to present the figure of a man blindly following in the path of his ancestors before him, who have risen a step closer to the heavens with each new successor in the lineage.

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Shocking Lip Makeup Looks Like a Hungry Eye

You might be thinking, "Is that an eye with some sort of trippy contact lens or lips with some clever makeup?" If you guessed the latter, you'd be correct! Swedish makeup enthusiast Sandra Holmbom, aka psychosandra, created this wildly illusionary look for her lips, mimicking an eye.

From the intricately designed iris to the delicately applied eyelashes, the makeup artist has meticulously created a third eye on her face in a most creative and unexpected way. The slight part in her mouth adds to the mind-boggling effect that causes one to do double-take. While the artist has created a visually stunning effect with great attention to detail, Holmbom admits that she just wanted to do something weird and adds, "Pretty, it's not, but I had fun anyway

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Chair Sculpture For Abu Dhabi

It took the artist around five days to build 'Chairs For Abu Dhabi' sculpture. Visitors are invited to walk through the dome and take a seat inside of the structure. Unlike the previous versions of the artwork installed in France, the Abu Dhabi chair sculpture features "a mixture of all kinds of wooden, metal, colorful chairs - everything," the artist says in a statement, according to Junk-culture. The piece has become one of the most eye-catching artworks at the art fair, where people come and take a rest throughout the festival

"An empty chair is waiting for people to sit down, and then a chair is connecting to other chairs," he explained. "So it's really like a waiting spot, open for everybody to sit down. That's kind of the metaphor we're using."

Born in Hokkaido, Japan, Kawamata has been known for his use of scrap materials in many of his installation. The artist also attended in important international events from a very young age.

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Toy Robots Made from Recycled Electronic Components

Portugese product designer Marco Fernandes built some fun robots out of electrical components salvaged from the trash heap. So far Fernandes has designed nine figures as part of his R³bot series, I think #R³bot nine is definitely my son 

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Banana Peel Art Drawn With a Safety Pin

Artist Honey, founder of the website Sweet-Station, has discovered a unique way to turn bananas into art. The graphic artist and illustrator always has bananas around the house and, one day, she decided to draw on the outside peel. But, the pen kept poking through the skin so Honey picked up a safety pin and started illustrating through a creative pointillism technique. She makes small punctures in the skin, allowing air to reach the fruit. As the punctured banana peel turns brown, the organized patterns of dots reveal various and incredibly detailed designs, such as portraits of The Blues Brothers and Jim Morrison, as well as playful messages spread across a bunch, like "I want a banana split."

Each piece takes anywhere from 20 minutes to 2 hours to create and, when she's done, Honey takes a photograph and then eats her art as a snack! 

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Anamorphic Sculptures Revealed in Cylindrical Reflections

Johannesburg-born, London-based sculptor Jonty Hurwitz constructs incredibly complex anamorphic structures whose true forms can only be seen through precise perspectives. Some of his creations feature an abstract figure circling a metallic cylinder whose purpose is simply to reveal a recognizable shape within its reflection. In the piece titled Rejuvenation, the chrome cylinder in the center visually transforms what appears to be a misshapen mold of copper is into a grasping human hand.

Hurwitz's body of work also includes anamorphic content that is devoid of a reflective plane. In these pieces, the artist breaks down figures and spatially divides them in particular compositions. They are often accompanied by a circular peephole from which a viewer is meant to view the distorted pieces as its true, composed form. In either case, perspective is the key to unlocking the warped sculptures that Hurwitz constructs with scientific precision. Using 3D scanning and the power of p, the artist finds a way to assemble his meticulous pieces. He says, "Finding that line between art and science is the underlying motivator in my art life."

If you're in London, Hurwitz is scheduled to have a piece on display at the Kinetica Art Fair, which is running from February 28th to March 3rd. In the meantime, check out the video, below, to see a 360° view of his piece titled Co-Founder (previously The Thinker) at Tower 42.

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