Friday, October 15, 2010

Peter Callesen

Peter Callesen is amazing. I absolutely love his work. Some of it gets pretty extreme, but the detail is unbelievable, especially his cut-outs.




By the way, not all of his cut outs are of birds...I just happened to like these two best.


Originally I was drawn to the cut-outs, mostly just because of the complexity of his work, but after looking around more, I truly fell in love with his works on water. My favorite was called "Drifting Dreams". He used styrofoam filled bed linens and floated them down a lush rivers edge. Even though the pictures themselves are great, its actually not the photo that he considers the art. The art, what the people walking by are seeing, in present time. 




 This castle was at a performance festival, and was an ongoing 2 week "performance"

This is a called "Festival for Birds" The picture above is of a giant nest and egg.

Something about all of this water pieces remind me of a magical fairy tale. Something you would see in a dream! :)

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