The Birth of Us by Anders Krisár

Blurb from YAMS:

Who doesn’t have a thing for skin? We’ll wait. Artist Anders Krisár is a Swedish sculptor, photographer, and contemporary artist who captures the “touch” so nicely. This work is on sale for 20-30,000 dollars; created in 2005. To view his most popular work, kindly visit this link. Above (l-r) “The Birth of Us (Boy)” and “The Birth of Us (Girl)”.

Anders Krisár

Cuirass by Anders Krisá

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Photos: Charlie Lucas

Blurb from YAMS:

Lucas’ work reminds me of Short Circuit‘s Johnny 5. Birmingham native Charlie Lucas is a self-taught artist known as “Tin Man” for his sculptures made from found scrap metal. His pieces have been showcased in museums and galleries across the U.S. and in Europe. Enjoy his quotes below.

I think I been introduced to art, whatever you want to call it, a long time ago. That I didn’t even know what it was is I’d say when I was a kid. I was always making things and nobody never told me that it was art, and I don’t even see it as art anyway.

I go to like the scrap yards. I go to dump sites. And I want kids to see this thing.- I don’t want them to see it in the shiny, in the newness of it. I don’t even attempt to paint so much of my work. My sculpture I kind of leave them natural with the pieces. Because you want the kids to see the whole society is not shiny and pretty, glamorous that we pretend it is, because it’s not. If we was to really peel ourselves back and look at the true part of ourselves, we would be some of the ugliest things you want to see.

It’s kind of like being a kid. You get to play with your toys and you get to play with them in a way that people look at you and say,” he’s like in the back yard but he won’t bite”. You’re content to be who you want to be inside of the back yard. This is to me is basically my back yard in a way. I’m content to come out and work on my toys.