For Connected, Kasey McMahon fabricates a networked goddess out of Ethernet cables.

A shark in my soup, by Apostolos Porsanidis.

Oh look. It’s a dollar sign made out of bullets. How clever! The artist must be making some kind of statement. Humm… I know! It’s about the connection between money and warfare. Do you get it? Do you fucking get it!?

Shown Not Shown above: Joe Gee’s Explorations. Gee has another sculpture with the word “PEACE” spelled out in bullets. Hahahahaha oh the irony!

Another image after the break.

Siberian artist Marina Bychkova takes the inherent creepiness of realistic dolls to a whole new level with her tiny porcelain creations. Her “Enchanted Dolls” feature ball-joints and tattoos and anatomically correct private parts.

A robot sculpture with its own backstory, from mheisler. See extended for more views.

Front three-quarters view.

From behind.

Slow-Damen presented with flower by companion bot Slo-Herren.

A wooden sculpture by Scott Musgrove.

Artist, sculptor, and toy maker Andrew Bell built a custom wagon sculpture, tied an absurdly large and bulbous cargo to the roof, and posed it for Road Trip photos.  The result is a perfectly charming image of slightly warped Americana.

What better way to follow up posting about the 7 Deadly Sins than with another post of The Deadly Sins. This one is by Kris Kuksi, an American artist whose sculptures are like 3-dimensional realizations of Hieronymus Bosch’s nightmare visions, but more intricately detailed and with twice the black humor.

See extended below for some detail shots.

Take lots of multi-colored products with a shared theme. Stick them on a poll. Doesn’t sound like a recipe for a great work, but David Batchelor’s Parapillar 7 is well executed, original, and fun.

For centuries, the art world was dominated by religious icons. If you painted, and you wanted to get paid for it, your subject matter was strictly Old or New Testament. The Church was your biggest patron, and the subject matter was something everyone around you understood.

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Nowadays if you want to paint icons (nearly) everyone can understand, then Mario is your new Christ, Super Mario Bros your Old Testament. The quantity, and quality, of Mario-related artwork is astounding. Below is just a small sampling of Marioart. The image from before the break is “Cheers” by Bob Dob.

Living Oxymoron with “Super Mario Brothers Fanart”

“Piranha Plant Fights Back” by Sebastien Harding.

“Super Mario Poster” by Makotron.

Knit Piranha Plant. Real-space representations of Mario icons are quite common:

Mario Instalation by Antionette J. Citizen.

Super Mario Pushpin Table by The Artist and the Ego.

“NYC Mario” by Wooster Collective.

Mario is often cast in new roles, like the Godfather Sopranos above, and Misha’s “Last Supper” below.

Bob Dob has more takes on Mario and friends:

Luigi and Mario Police Mug Shots above.

“Mario Land” by Emroca Flores.

Super Mario goes cubist from jimiyo.

Artist unknown for portrait of hundreds of dead lives for Mario above.  Game over.

Urban samurai toy by Dr. Bao-NVC Crew

Charles Krafft crafts weapons out of porcelain. The results are surprising good, dispite his clearly limited talent for executing in his chosen medium.