Design Work Life: Cataloging Inspiration Daily

These beau­ti­ful pieces are from Brooklyn-based artist Shane McAdams’s Synthetic Landscapes series. From his arist statement:

“Like the strat­i­fied rock on the Navajo reser­va­tion, where I spent much of my child­hood, the forms in my work are often analogs to the meth­ods of their cre­ation. They take root in the phys­i­cal prop­er­ties inher­ent within spe­cific, mun­dane mate­ri­als such as Elmer’s glue, cor­rec­tion fluid, ball­point pen ink and resin, whose lim­its are stretched by sub­ject­ing them to non-traditional appli­ca­tions, gen­er­at­ing struc­tures whose com­plex­ity belies the ele­gance of their cre­ation. This process reflects the phys­i­cal forces that are con­stantly work­ing to fash­ion and sculpt the nat­ural land­scape, and, by brack­et­ing these forms with hand-rendered and con­ven­tion­al­ized images, I hope to evoke the dual­ity between the actual and the arti­fi­cial as it is con­veyed through ide­al­ized rep­re­sen­ta­tions of order and beauty.”

via Bonnie Tsang