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| Chris Johanson, The Sound of Energy in Space, 2010 |
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| Lauren Schofield, Kaleidoscopic Butterfly, 2006 |
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| Jo Jackson, Living Brushes, 2006 |
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| Maya Hayuk |
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| Chris Johanson |
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| Dalek |
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| Keegan Mchargue |
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| Katy Horan, String Game |
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Dylan Martorell, Panter Cluster Rimbone Exhibition |
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| Petrina Hicks, Nastasja, 2006 |
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| Petrina Hicks, Lambswool, 2008 |
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Cheong-ah Hwang, Little Red Riding Hood, 2010  Kiki Smith, Born, 2002 |
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| Chris Buzelli, Lust (The Seven Deadly Sins), 2009 |
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| Lostfish, The Girl And The Ferret, 2007 |
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| Leonardo da Vinci, La dama Con L'ermellino, 1488 - 1490 |
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| Slinkachu - Little People |
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| Slinkachu - Little People |
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| Slinkachu - Little People |
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| Dalton Ghetti - Pencil Tip Sculpture |
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| Dalton Ghetti - Pencil Tip Sculpture |
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| Dalton Ghetti - Pencil Tip Sculpture |
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| Willard Wigan - Needle Tip Sculpture |
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| Willard Wigan - Needle Tip Sculpture The three artists featured above focus (that's the operative word here) on creating incy-wincey sculptures that are large in their novelty and capacity to surprise, if not in their size. I was once rather chuffed with myself for owning a deck of playing cards the size of my thumb-nail. Needles to say, I lost it. There is something very pleasurable about infinitesimally small creations. Maybe they bring us closer to our atoms. Also, they do not seek out an overt attention-grabbing audience, but rather exist in reality as items of skill and virtuosity that require very direct experience and personal engagement from the viewer. A wee treasure waiting to be shared. Dalton Ghetti, who carves out his own niche as well as sculptures into pencil lead, uses three basic tools to make his tiny creations – a razor blade, sewing needle and sculpting knife. Dalton has never sold any of his work and only gives it away to friends. The longest Dalton has spent on one piece was two and half years on a pencil with interlinking chains. |
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| Jeff Wall, detail from A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai), 1993 |
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| Jeff Wall, A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai), 1993 |
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| Serkan Ozkaya, A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai), 2008 |
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| Carrie Marill, A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai), 2009 |
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| Katsushika Hokusai, Ejiri in Suruga Province (Sunshû Ejiri), 1830-33 "If you were a bird, and lived on high, You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by, you'd say to the wind when it took you away: That's where I wanted to go today!" - A.A. Milne |
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| Nagi Noda, Untitled, 2004 |
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| Rene & Radka, Under Water series, 2009 |
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| Sam Taylor-Wood, Self-Portrait Suspended, 2004 |
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| Ken Unsworth, "A Ringing Glass" Installation, 2009 haiku - floating leaf an ant runs round and round by john tiong chunghoo |
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| Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirror Room, 1965 |
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| MC Escher, Bond of Union, 1956 |
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| Job Koelewijn, Infinity Bookcase, 2008 |
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| Mona Hatoum, Infinity Soldiers, 1991-2000 |
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| Gary Baseman, Infinity Girl, year unknown |
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| David Revoy, Yin and Yang of World Hunger, year unknown |
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| Jakub Wojewoda, Sayeva, year unknown |
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| Don Mak, Siddhartha and Jesus, 2005 |
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| Istvan Orosz, poster for the play Medeia by Sophokles |
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| James Jean, Maze, 2008 |
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| Jaime Zollars, The Maze, She Breathes, 2009 Labyrinths and mazes have always been metaphors for the human quest. A labyrinth is unicursal, meaning it has only one path and no dead ends. A maze is multicursal, with a series of paths that require many excursions of trial and error to escape; a metaphor for transcending pattern in order to achieve release. |
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| Andrew Sutherland, The Kindness of Strangers, 2010 |
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| Lyndi Sales, (Tretchikoff & Me), 2010 |
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| Vladimir Tretchikoff, Lost Orchid, 1948 The above artworks by Andrew Sutherland and Lyndi Sales were created for an exhibition hosted by Salon91 in honor of Tretchikoff, also known as "The King of Kitch". The salon-style exhibition consisted of vintage archival prints by Vladimir Tretchikoff, printed under the artist's supervision, and contemporary responses to his work by established and emerging South African artists. Tretchikoff's Lost Orchid juxtaposes simplicity with a sense of drama. Was the woman who wore the orchid about to turn into a pumpkin as she fled down the stairs? The teardrop is consistent with the artists belief that flowers are capable of feelings and even simple emotions. |
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| Daniel Firman, Wursa, 2008 In 1969, Georg Baselitz (below) painted his first picture to feature an inverted motif, "The Wood On Its Head." Displaying his work upturned gave the art world a bit of a shake, which is always a good thing. Since then, Baselitz has been a pioneer in turning the world upside down through his artworks. In an Op Artish way, Mequitta Ahuja's snake-like locks hypnotise the eye with their patterned charm. Above, Daniel Firman's mind-boggling elephant sculpture defies gravity as it does words. |
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| Mequitta Ahuja, Wriggle, 2008 |
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| Georg Baselitz, The Wood on its Head, 1969 |
