Tag: nature

Nuala O’Donovan

Nuala O’Donovan, Sculptural Ceramics

Nuala O’Donovan is an artist working in sculptural ceramics. She was born in Cork City, Ireland. She completed BA in Three-Dimensional Design at Middlesex University in the United Kingdom and studied ceramics at the Crawford Collage of Art and Design graduating with an MA.

These sculptural ceramics combine regular pattern with the characteristics of irregular forms from nature. “The patterns are regularly irregular,” she says. Each part of the pattern is individually made. It takes over a period of weeks or months to construct the form. Nuala is strongly inspired by the history behind every scarred or broken surface.  Imperfections are evidence of life force in living organisms. So her work evokes the transient value of living organisms, linking traces of history, the present and the future.

Gustav Willeit

 

Photography by Gustav Willeit

Born in the mountainous regions of northeast Italy, photographer Gustav Willeit seems fascinated by vertiginous landscapes. While he is used to taking alpine panoramas, he nonetheless very quickly feels the need to explore other locations, travelling all over the globe in search of unusual images. From 2000 to 2004 he studied at the prestigious photography school F+F Schule für Kunst und Mediendesign in Zurich, then worked as a photographer’s assistant before launching his freelance career in 2006.

Willeit has since participated in many solo and collective exhibitions in Europe. The power of his images is expressed through their inaccessible aspect, unusual points of view, and the intensity of the contrasts and chromatic nuances. When nature does not deploy its elements of its own accord, the artist uses digital techniques to recreate environments from his imagination, also inventing their titles. It is therefore difficult to make out reality from fantasy.

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Green Tree Python

Green Tree Python: Native to New Guinea, Islands in Indonesia, and Cape York Peninsula in Australia

The Green Tree Python is characterized by a relatively slim body. The relatively long tail accounts for about 14% of the total length. The head is large and clearly defined from the neck. The snout is large and angular. The body is triangular in cross section with a visible spine. The species usually reaches a total length of 150-180 cm (4.9-5.9 ft), but large females may reach 200 cm (6.6 ft). The size also varies depending on the region of origin.

Toto was Lost from Sight

Photographer Unknown, (Toto Was Lost from Sight)

“She was awakened by a shock, so sudden and severe that if Dorothy had not been lying on the soft bed she might have been hurt. As it was, the jar made her catch her breath and wonder what had happened; and Toto put his cold little nose into her face and whined dismally. Dorothy sat up and noticed that the house was not moving; nor was it dark, for the bright sunshine came in at the window, flooding the little room. She sprang from her bed and with Toto at her heels ran and opened the door.”

― L. Frank Baum,The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

White Tiger

Photographer Unknown, White Bengal Tiger

The White Bengal tigers are distinctive due to the color of their fur. The white fur caused by a lack of the pigment pheomelanin, which is found in Bengal tigers with orange color fur. When compared to Bengal tigers, the white Bengal tigers tend to grow faster and heavier than the orange Bengal tiger. They also tend to be somewhat bigger at birth, and as fully grown adults.

White Bengal tigers are fully grown when they are 2–3 years of age. White male tigers reach weights of 200 to 230 kilograms and can grow up to 3 meters in length. As with all tigers, the white Bengal tiger’s stripes are like fingerprints, with no two tigers having the same pattern. The stripes of the tiger are a pigmentation of the skin; if an individual were to be shaved, its distinctive coat pattern would still be visible.