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Favourite quote:
“Young people today… hardly any of them I think can write. Let alone… they’re very good at doing all this, and texting. And their lives are so busy, and I don’t think they put pen to paper.”

It’s only been a few months since we last blogged about Jason deCaires Taylor’s excellent recent underwater artwork. But I was so very impressed by his latest piece, entitled Anthropocene, that I decided it deserved a new post of its very own.

Reflecting Jason’s ongoing concern for the environment, this sculpture somewhat satirically takes the form of a car, whilst in fact helping the marine environment by providing a haven for small creatures and forming a kind of artificial coral landscape. Aesthetically speaking, the attractive form of the Volkswagen on the seabed is the latest example of Jason’s incongruous and witty juxtapositions (though perhaps my favourite example of this is his underwater couch potato and his TV dinner titled Inercia).

Anyway, look at these cool pictures and don’t forget to visit Jason’s website underwatersculpture.com

A fresh piece of work by the stunning contemporary artist and fellow Baker, Tom German:

Within this work the artist has attempted to fuse classical lens based media with fusion shutter interplay to create a claustrophobic melancholy. Wasabi, in this context represents the apocalypse, but the middle classes apocalypse will not involve tidal waves, or hurricanes, but a closing down of artisan bread makers, or the eternal shut down of WIFI in the Camden Starbucks. The pavement is the dull grey of crushing Industrial conformity, the flat Wasabi packet the rising middle class collapsing like a flan in a hot summer cupboard…

I recently took some portrait shots in Italy of members of my extended family. All of them can be seen here: http://alaricking.co.uk/photo/sessarego/

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