For Looking Out Week 2, I decided to take a look at Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira. This cultural cousin of mine collects scraps and strips of junky plywood from construction sites in São Paulo, Brazil, and using some process I imagine is one part talent, one part wood glue, and one part black magic, melds them into sinuous sculptures. That's what many people - including me - find most fascinating about his work: he takes what we usually think of as a fairly two-dimensional planar material and through additive construction transforms it into a complex three-dimensional solid.
Here are just a few examples:
The guy's been doing this type of sculpture since at least 2003 and it is stunning. You should take a look at his website. The pictures I posted above are from
Treehugger.com and, while crazy wonderful, do not capture the full extent of his work as shown on his website:
Henrique Oliveira's Official Website.
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