An answer to rising rent prices!

Dai Haifei's egg-shaped mobile home, via Ilse Acke

Dai Haifei's creation via Ilse Acke

Twenty-four year old Dai Haifei, a recent architecture school graduate, built this egg-shaped mobile home as a response to the rising cost of rent in Beijing. It's 6' high, is on 2 wheels, is made of bamboo splints and sacks of grass seed that grow continually to provide insulation. It even has a solar panel to power his lamp. He lived in this structure for 2 months on the street. How's that for taking care of yourself?! You can see more pictures here.

photo of Dai Haifei's creation via Ilse Acke

Dai Haifei's creation via Ilse Acke

Weaving with Paint

Ever since working on the Boro-inspired drawings I've been exploring the idea of making paper look like fabric. With the Boro drawings I folded and sanded the paper to soften it and make it look like a well-loved garment. The next leap I made was to make a patchwork painting with the waves and dots from a previous theme. Then I added liquified paint from squeeze bottles to create a "weave" with paint. I plan to keep going with different layers of dots and weaves. The drawings on the bottom are daily ones from the drawing project I am still doing.

Elvira Mateu

Elvira Mateu

Elvira Mateu

Isn't this the most beautiful jewelry? So delicate and mysterious. She is an artist from Valencia, Spain. Her blog is here, and her Flickr stream is here.