Giant Nest Sculpture by Nils Udo “Clay Nest” by German artist Nils Udo was a giant outdoor sculpture in which logs and bamboo were fashioned into an 80 ton nest. The sculpture was installed in 2005 at Clemson University in South Carolina and was dismantled for safety reasons in 2007. For more photos of the sculpture see this Flickr photo set by Dylan Wolfe.
nevver: Tell me, Laurel Woodcock
curiositycounts: Yes/No – brilliant typographic illusion sclpture by Markus Raetz   (via)
Neon sign construction by: Orest Tataryn / photo credit: Toni Hafkenscheid
Indian sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik gives finishing touches to a sand sculpture to mark the killing of Osama bin Laden at the golden sea beach at Puri, Orissa, India, Monday, May 2, 2011.
Paige Bradley created one of the most striking sculptures I’ve seen in recent times. Her masterpiece, entitled Expansion, is a beautiful woman seeking inner piece but fractured and bleeding with light. “From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a container already built for us to fit inside: a social security number, a gender, a race, a profession,” says Bradley. “I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in than what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies?”
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