[Simon Johan explores] the human predilection toward fantasy and emotional fulfillment… through the depictions of animals who mirror human conventions. A pair of dreamy foxes in a park during a snowstorm appears to be crying; a llama with a poodle haircut exhibits flamboyance. He creates mythical landscapes that hover in a space between fantasy and [...]

I rarely remember my dreams, but when I do, they are always in full colour. The environment is always fully formed - each detail, each intricacy laid out with utmost clarity. Unbound by the physical constraints of reality, it is exuberant and phantasmagoric. I never want to leave…
Scott Everingham creates environments that are at [...]

Employing theatrical makeup, elaborate costumes, props and digital manipulation, [Yasumasa] Morimura fastidiously refashions himself as heroines from the canon of painting… [like Frida Kahlo]. Yet, the artifice - and ultimately the failure - of his transformations are always conspicuous. By imitating though never quite becoming [her], Morimura unravels notions of male and female, east and [...]

Today, the weather might be extreme (by mild Portland standards) but the tough conditions in these photos give some rare and valuable comparative scale to the world’s pressing economic and existential problems. It’s all the more poignant as the context comes through the extremely hazardous lens of extreme crab fishing. Sure, times are going get [...]

It is mid March. I stepped into the garden. Flower buds appearing, green grass replacing the soggy ground. Growth is everywhere. Colour is everywhere. It will soon be Spring.
 

Paintings by British Columbian artist Todd Clark.

I was always fascinated with shadows. I liked how it followed me around, playing peekaboo with each turn I make. Sometimes tall and lean, other times short and stout - my personal funhouse mirror. I also liked to think that he was my twin brother, that he was the one leaving the footprints that trailed [...]

My name is Terry Fox. I am 21 years old, and I am an amputee. I lost my right leg two-and-a-half years ago due to cancer. The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who ran in the New York Marathon. It was then [...]

Painting from film stills extracted from sources of popular culture, McReynolds explores how an image can be broken down through multiple layers of appropriation, from film to video to digital media to paint. Depicting group activities such as party scenes, sun bathing and show-boat performances, McReynolds magnifies the contrast between the immediacy of spectacle and [...]

In the fall of 2009 I left for Pakistan to start a project around acid and kerosene oil burn victims. I worked with a non-governmental foundation called Depilex Smile Again Foundation which helps burned women with reconstructive surgery, rehabilitation and therapy. There are currently over 400 women waiting for reconstructive surgery after acid attacks in [...]

I have never been to Iceland, but I always imagined that it laid untainted by the hand of man. I know it is wishful thinking. Gentrification comes with at the expense of nature. We set up camp and greedily lay claim to more land with every passing day. Thomsen’s photographs of the Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Project [...]