of paper and things

flickr browsing, and this caught my eye...isn't it pretty?! ink, encaustic, oil, watercolor, and tea on paper the chinese quarter by woodcliffe

really like this stool from air design group .

hemlock 82 ~ a beautiful, large-scale relief print created exclusively for ashes and milk by brian nash gill . limited edition of 12. read about the laborious and fascinating process here .

the salt series by motoi yamamoto . remarkable installations of salt ~ i cannot even begin to imagine how he does this, but i like that he returns the salt to the ocean afterwards. {via booooooom!}

part sustainable water company, part art project, part philanthropic project, and completely curious. boxed water is better , is a boxed water company. the carton is recycled and recyclable, the company's carbon footprint is up to 80% lower than the manufacture and use of plastic bottles, and the firm gives 20% of profits back to water relief and reforestation projects and foundations. i really love this concept! {via cool hunting }

sequences + consequences by laura pregger . a series of objects made of repurposed porcelainware. i particularly like the lamps. {via notcot }

incredible, beautiful cut-paper collage drawings by val britton . i make immersive collaged drawings that draw on the language of maps. the impetus for this body of work was my longing to connect to my father, a truck driver who drove eighteen-wheelers across the country hauling industrial machinery. he died over ten years ago. based on road maps of the u.s., routes my father often traveled, and an invented conglomeration, mutation, and fragmentation of those passageways, my works on paper help me piece together the past and make up the parts i cannot know.