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Micro Mountains And Lakes.

Gianfranco Merati

United Kingdom

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Since its invention by NASA, magnetic fluid has gone to impact applications in a wide range of industries from electronics to construction.

For me this material represents a never ending source of creative ideas. It can be shaped, coloured and lit in so many ways.

Honorable Mention

Nominee

Silver

When sugar is brought to 186 degrees, it melts.

A virtually uneventful ingredient from an artistic perspective, can be turned into mesmerising shapes.

There is also a parallel with the human condition: warm people at the "right temperature" and they will turn into something completely different.

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186 Degrees.

The photos portray leaves that have decayed and -- yet -- retain an intrinsic beauty.

There is also a parallel to be drawn with the human condition: we all live and die and even after death we leave behind signs of our existence that can be appreciated perhaps from a different perspective.

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A Portrait Of My Garden.

Since its invention by NASA, magnetic fluid has gone to impact applications in a wide range of industries.

For me it represents a never ending source of creative ideas. It can be shaped, coloured and lit in so many ways.

In this project I attempted to create flower-like shapes and colours.

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Metallic Flowers.

With this project I aimed at visualising electricity. We live with electricity being ubiquitous around us and, yet, we never see it.

Leveraging the legacy that Nicola Tesla left us, I built a small “lightening generator”. With that done, I was able to capture a manifestations of electricity.

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Electric Trees.

In this project I explore the work of both Wassily Kandinsky and Piero Manzoni and create colours and shapes that may resemble works such as Manzoni’s “Artist’s Breath” and Kandinsky’s various work.

This is my tribute to two great artists, who made substantial contributions over their lifetime.

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A Tribute to Piero and Wassily.

In this project I use various chemical compounds mixed with liquid colours to create abstract art pieces. 

The result is a collection of surreal ‘reactions’ portraits. Some may remind us of famous paintings such as Munch’s or Klimt’s and others resemble surreal colourful cloud formations.

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Alchemy Of Life.