The Instrument of Instruments

Today I came across Per Volquartz's "Instruments of death" series and loved them instantly. How often do you get to see close ups of a Hornet, Missile or a propeller? When you are able to strip away the reason why these instruments have been built in the first place - you can see their outstanding design and beauty.

UYW Issue 9

"I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given the mind rests satisfied and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings." (Thomas Bailey Aldrich) With this in mind I would like to introduce five amazing artists.

Graham Miller
Alessandro Imbriaco
Sadie Wechsler
Michael Werner
Ben Huff

Click here to view the new edition.

Degrees of precision

Unable to leave the house has the advantages of being able to sort out ones emails. I do not know how I could have missed Gianpaolo Arena's, but I was more the delighted to come across it again. These images are from his series "the right distance".

At the moment I would rather plan a trip through stunning mountains in Iceland as Bec Brown from Blanket magazine did, then paint my living room. But then again, tomorrow, when I wake up, I can pretend I am someplace other - on a holiday - as I am sure it will look stunning after weeks of plaster.

Childhood memories

When I saw Deborah Parkin's images, they made my heart ache. Deborah is using a large format camera with instant film, not the easiest when it is windy and the dog is barking.... but how much fun and what a joy - her kids will have the best preserved memories to keep them company when they are old.

Listening

Ok, so I am still sick and still feeling a bit sorry for myself, so when I found Linda Sim's images in my blog folder, they simply cheered me up and inspired me. On her website Linda writes: "an exploration into the depths of the human mind, leading to an ambiguous centre, characterized by the infinite impossibility of rational assessment; by nature. no matter how well we train our brains to function via logical reasoning, we essentially still base each and every of our daily decisions on our innermost feelings and needs, which may be obscure; a language we cannot understand. the poetry of human existence is everlastingly buried just below our skin... and we may just starting to listen."

Fabulous ambigious

How much fun must Heather Rasmussen have had constructing this great project? It started with shipping container accidents images she downloaded from the internet, made her own paper constructions, only to assemble them in the same way as her found images. Found Via

Relationship of elements

After coming across Tim Simmons ambiguous landscape photographs of haunting beauty, I started to wonder how he achieved his incredible lighting.

I travel for trees

I am not good at snap shots. I tried it in Hamburg, but when I got home I deleted most of them. These images were taken around Tivoli (2 hours from Rome by bus) and this is when I realised that my travels are for trees (along with friends, sun, good wine etc). I never seem to get tired of their form, sizes or shapes and am committed to continue to capture their elegant calm.

Crash and fire-proof

I am always interested to see what interests other people and when I came upon Jeffrey Milstein's "Black Boxes" I was interested. Wish it would have been my idea. After further research I leaned that...
"It was Dr David Warren who first thought of the idea for a machine that would record the voices and instrument readings in the cockpit of an aeroplane. Dr Warren worked as a scientist at the Aeronautical Research Laboratory in Melbourne, Australia. In the 1950's a number of Comet jet-powered airliners had crashed and a cause for the disasters could not be found. David Warren thought that a recording of the pilot and other members of the flight crew, as well as instrument readings at the time of the crash, might give clues as to the cause of a crash. No one was very interested in his idea." Via