To get inspired for the week ahead, have a look at Escif’s wonderfully poetic artwork. Escif is a Spanish street artist located in Valencia. If you’d like to see more of his work go here or here.

Words and Years, by Norwegian artist Toril Johannessen, is a series of graphs based on research in various academic journals and magazines. Going through the complete volumes of the journals from the first issues up until today, selected words are higlighted and the frequency of their use is mapped.

Pneu is a series of carefully carved car tires by Belgian artist Wim Delvoye . Not only do I think the actual carving work looks impressive, but I love how Delvoye transforms this rather boring everyday object into a fascination rubber sculpture. To see more of his work click here.

I just fell in love with those super realistic still life paintings by Christopher Stott. His painting skills are amazing, but not only that, the way the objects are chosen and placed, combined with the right kind of light gives those rather simple objects an importance and beauty one might usually not see. You can see his full portfolio here.

If breaking a salt and pepper shaker did not do the trick to increase your satisfaction, try shaking your printer while printing. Joe Winter produced those images with a standard desktop inkjet printer which was violently shaken during the process of printing. The resulting colour misalignments, interference patterns, and distortions alternately read as scientific data (EKG, seismography, spectrometry) and abstract drawings. I have a couple of printers at my studio I could imagine doing this with.

Horizons, by New Zealand artist Neil Dawson, looks like a line drawing on a photo, but is in fact a real sculpture made of welded steel. It is located at a private art park called The Farm, which reminds me a bit of Storm King located in New York. I love how this obviously heavy sculpture is lying in the grass, kept in “imaginary” motion by the wind blowing past it.