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Things folded and connected


‘Oritsunagumono’ (translated as ”things folded and connected”) is a collection of origami works by artist takayuki hori, created to highlight the environmental threat of pollution to a number of species native to japan’s coastal waterways.

Each translucent sheet is first printed with either the images of fragments of an animal’s skeleton, or, on some pages, human-made discarded objects that are often ingested by the animals in the wild. Using the ancient tradition of folded paper, hori assembles the pages into a three-dimensional model. Once the paper is folded, the printed components are united as a whole, telling the visual story of the animal’s plight to survive in an increasingly polluted and hazardous ecosystem.

While the animal skeletons appear as x-ray images, the garbage they ingest is frequently highlighted in colour.

Too cute. Source DesignBoom.
Thanks to Beni from Outfacing for sharing 🙂

Maysun Photographer



This week I discovered Maysun and I have fallen in love with her work.
She is an Spanish-Palestinian photographer based in Bangkok, Thailand.

”I’m compromise with my job because I consider that it’s a way to be engaged and consistent with my convictions and my ethics. Photography is a way to be engaged with our world.”
Maysun Photographer, read more about her.

Ben Tour Illustration

Canadian-born artist Ben Tour (b. 1977) channels a dark, often haunting sense of humanism in his work.
His observations deftly inform his paintings, enabling him to capture the essence of a character, and then distort that view any way he desires. Frenetic lines, swaths of color, and intimate angles all convey a sense that Tour may not only be drawing inspiration from the lives of strangers he observes, but manifesting his own personal experiences as well.