I am often in a rush. I do not make eye contact while scurrying to my destination. Few do. The endless throngs of people at the subway station all whiz past me. The endless drone of whirring car engines that permeate my ears, the stench of toxic fumes that engulf my nose - they all [...]

This underground facility is situated within the Solotvyno salt mine near a small Ukrainian village of the same name, close to the Romanian border. It was opened during Soviet times in the 1970s, and operates alongside the Ukrainian State Allergy Hospital which is also located nearby.
The therapy which takes place at Solotvyno is based on [...]

I once considered a career in architecture. I took classes in analysing our relationship with space. While I no longer pursue this profession, those classes left a profound impact in my understanding of space. Sometimes, I even turn the lights off and fumble deliberately in darkness, just to feel the walls that shelter me. When [...]

In Kalberg’s most recent work, fragments of imagery are assembled to create unstable tableaux, forms unplaced and dislodged from their original context. Using abstract vocabulary as well as representational segments, the artist constructs a complex world of symbols and signs which border on the edge of recognition, purposely offering the viewer a variety of interpretations.
Dynamic [...]

Christopher Langton, one of the founders of artificial life, began his work by studying one-dimensional cellular automata. He thought of one of the states of an automaton as being “dead”. All the remaining states were thought of as “alive”. Langton only worked with automata with the property that if a cell and are its neighbors [...]

Kenneth Noland, whose brilliantly colored concentric circles, chevrons and stripes were among the most recognized and admired signatures of the postwar style of abstraction known as Color Field painting, … arrived on the scene in the immediate aftermath of Abstract Expressionism. A student of the geometric abstractionists Josef Albers and Ilya Bolotowsky, he found his [...]

I am attracted to shiny things. Seductive scintillations titillate my nerves, flushing me with excitement. Reflections and refractions - I can resist neither. Why do I fall prey to a glimmer? Why do gleaming objects fondle my heart so?
“Arguments on this point are necessarily speculative, but it’s worth noting that we associate shininess, cleanliness and [...]

For me, this series is synonymous with a marsh lost in time, a world of wonderful yet scary meanderings with neither time nor spatial limits. A diffused and gloomy light bathes this uncertain world of sprouting flowers, genetic experiments and magical mutations. It’s an explosion of life and forms which, from the infinitely far to [...]

Explosions are beautiful. They bloom like flowers, bits and pieces of a once-solid structure knifing across air - every direction - pacing through in their own trajectories, perhaps fulfilling their sinister potential… Why must this sublime beauty be associated with death?
 

Images by Naoya Hatakeyama.

Although I grew up in a developing nation, I have been fortunate enough to live in residential areas far away from industrial sites for my entire life. I remember, when I was young, the television was inundated with commercials depicting the bright future of a fully-industrialised nation - how lives are made so much easier [...]