These mixed media portraits are part of a project by Takahiro Kimura called Broken 1000 Faces. He started this project back in 1999, and is still continuing to add to it. See them all so far at broken1000faces.com!
Hsiao-Ron Cheng is an illustrator from Taiwan... "My work alludes to the deformation that physically separates children from plants and animals. The environments and situations that I paint are often of surrealist nature, reminiscent of school, and partly based on phantasy. My aim is to create more complex worlds with complicated stories of childlike and cruel creatures, showing different kinds of the fragile and oppressive anima in life."
I went to an amazing exhibition this past weekend at the Brooklyn Museum called Gravity and Grace. The artist El Anatsui creates monumental pieces out of bottle caps, metal shards, and cans from a distillery in Nsukka, Nigeria where he originates. His colorful wall hangings are tapestry-like and flow weightlessly despite the materials they are created with. This exhibition will be up until August 18th. Well worth it to check it out for yourself. For more information, visit brooklynmuseum.org.