Studio Fludd, Designers

Photographic meditations on the ambiguous stages of matter.
Still-lifes exploring different consistencies,
materials and other funny things - like candy cotton from Moscow.

Text and images from studiofludd.com

Andy Goldsworthy, Artist

In his Snowballs in Summer series, Goldsworthy makes large snowballs in winter and preserves them until the summer. Inside of each snowball, he “hides” different materials such as chalk, old pine needles, and dogwood [pictured above]. For this project, Goldsworthy is interested in how different snow melts, the patterns the materials inside will melt into, and the relationship between a city and the imposed natural form.

Source is Outside Gallery.  Link here.

Zuzanna Janin, Artist

Zuzanna Janin. Sweet Girl, 1997.

Description:

Sculpture made from cotton candy; Changes and evolves over time.

Source is Brooklyn Museum: Elizabeth A. Sackler for Feminist Art

link here

Kevin Hunt

I found it here. 

A Woman Made of Candles

I found it here on Colossal Art and Design.

Christina Bothwell, Artist

This artist is using glass.

However, the transparency of the glass is similar to what can be achieved with glycerin soap.

You can embed objects in the glycerin soap.

Or you can add ceramic forms to your soap.

Link here to see more of artist's work.

Claire Partington, Artist

This is a ceramic artist.
 I thought her work would be inspirational for soap carving.
 Perhaps drawings, or decals, could be placed on the soap.

Link here to read an interview with Partington in Juxtapoz Magazine.

Partington's website link here.

Urs Fischer at Venice Biennale 2011

More images of this work on DesignBoom. Link here.

Chia Pet

Figurines in the shape of animals have been made for centuries as art objects. These figurines have typically been made of clay, stone or wood. Go to Chia Power if you want to know more about the history of chia. Link here.

The ch-ch-ch-Chia is so much a part of American consumer lore that it was ch-ch-ch-chosen to be included in a New York Times time capsule, to be opened in the year 3000, along with a Purple Heart medal, a can of Spam and a Betty Crocker cookbook. From smithsonianmag.com

Could it be? The origin of the chia pet? Digital Sextant's photostream. Flickr link here.

Merzbau by Artist Kurt Schwitters

"Schwitters' built his constructions into his residences incorporating rooms he lived in into the structure. The ceilings and walls were covered with three dimensional shapes and countless nooks and grottos were filed with a variety of objects -- "spoils and relics" (personal items Schwitters stole from friends and acquaintances). These nooks and grottos were sometimes obliterated by future additions, leaving them existing only in the memories of the earlier versions of the work. Schwitters considered the Merzbau on principle, an uncompleted work that by it's very nature, continued to grow and change constantly."

Schwitters constructed columns in the space.

"Merz - A nonsense word invented by the German Dada artist Kurt Schwitters to describe his collage and assemblage works based on scavenged scrap materials. He made large numbers of small collages, and more substantial assemblages, in this medium. He is said to have extracted the word Merz from the name Commerz Bank which appeared on a piece of paper in one of his collages. Schwitters founded a Dada group in Hanover where he was based from 1919. There he created his first Merzbau (Merz building)."

1980's - Reconstruction of Merzbau at Tate Modern. Link to the Tate Modern for more.