©Jacek Yerka

Jacek Yerka is a Polish surrealist painter from Toruń. He mixes his memories from his amazing childhood and creates some beautiful, inspiring paintings, which are exhibited in Poland, Germany, Monaco, France, and the United States, and may be found in the museums of Poland.

All the pictures ©JasonDeCairesTaylor

Jason De Caires Taylor is a sculptor and in my humble opinion a genius. I've already spoken about him and his work a couple of years ago in a previous post.

This boat may look like it's sinking fast, but don't worry, it's perfectly upright. That's because this boat, called "Love Love," was designed by artist Julien Berthier to look like it's in the process of going under!

Photo: Banksy.co.uk
Banksy, the famous British graffiti artist, political activist and painter, whose identity is unconfirmed, has always had environmental issues as one of his favourite themes.
This time he has cleverly "reconditioned" a dolphin shaped kiddie ride in a anti-BP statement with the help of an oil drum and a tuna net.

©Sayaka Ganz

I've already spoken about a french artist, Edouard Martinet, who realizes wonderdul sculptures of animals using junk metal found in dumps.Take a look at the two following posts:

The man who blows life into junk metal
Edouard Martinet keeps blowing life into junk metal

This time it's the turn of artist Sayaka Ganz, that more or less do the same thing but with plastic scrap (however visiting her website you'll find metal sculptures too)


©Sayaka Ganz

The plastic sculptures measure from 18" to eight feet long and contain up to 500 pieces of junk.
Sayaka Ganz, 33, sorts everything plastic - from sunglasses and cutlery to baskets and cooking utensils - into 20 colour groups in her basement in Indiana, US.


©Sayaka Ganz

©Sayaka Ganz

©Sayaka Ganz

The artist working in her studio:


©Sayaka Ganz

This post started showing aquatic animals (hey guys this is still SeaWayBLOG!) because they're my favourite ones (especially the penguins plunging leaving the wakes)however obviously aquatic animals aren't her only subject:


©Sayaka Ganz

©Sayaka Ganz

©Sayaka Ganz

©Sayaka Ganz

©Sayaka Ganz

©Sayaka Ganz

©Sayaka Ganz

©Carl Warner

I am a long time fan of Carl Warner and I've already spoken about his creations in the following posts:

• The amazing foodscapes by Carl Warner
• Carl Warner's fishermen's village

If you don't know him yet he is the ingenious inventor of the "foodscapes", kind of landscapes made up just with food!
His last creation is no less than the London's skyline! That means that him and his assistants have recreated all the iconic buildings of the english capital city: St Paul's cathedral, the Houses of Parliament, the Tower Bridge, the London Eye, Nelson's column, the Gherkin building, the Embankment, the Big Ben and the Tower of London!
The big feat has been commissioned by the Good Food Channel and it took photographer Carl Warner and his team three weeks.
The edible versione of London has been recreated out of 26 different types of fruit and vegetables ranging from green beans to kumquats.

Looking at the details is always the best way to admire Warner's works:

©Carl Warner

©Carl Warner

©Carl Warner

©Carl Warner

©Carl Warner

©Carl Warner

©Carl Warner

©Carl Warner

If you are interested in the "ingredients" of the skyline read the following list and than take a look to the backstage video at the bottom of the post:

The face of BIG BEN is through slices of lemon while THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT is created with a mix of asparagus, green and runner beans subtly mixed with baby sweetcorn to depict the intricate stonework of the political landmark.
THE LONDON EYE has green beans as spokes and its pods carefully crafted out of baby plum tomatoes and the GHERKIN is manufactured from two types of melon and embedded with green beans - we can't help but think they missed a trick there.
NELSON'S COLUMN is made from a cucumber with baby courgettes and a carrot teamed with a monkey nut and almond while ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL has been given a modern day food makeover, with the spire being created from roundels of carrot, yellow and green courgette and baby leeks. The famous dome designed by Christopher Wren in the 17th century, has been transformed through the use of a melon, while the impressive columns have been crafted out of baby sweetcorn.
TOWER BRIDGE has pineapple piers with celery and shredded wheat towers and the TOWER OF LONDON is comprised of a selection of breadsticks and spelt crackers while the intricate brickwork has been constructed from mini shredded wheat.
THE EMBANKMENT is depicted through panini encrusted walls, punctuated by the iconic Thameside lampposts which are constructed by onions wrapped in vanilla pods for the lamps, asparagus for the posts and mackerel for the ornate fish plinths.

photo : iansanderson

I've already spoken about this incredible french sculptor in the post called "The man who blows life into junk metal". Almost two years passed by but Edouard seems not to have lost his incredible inspiration... On the contrary as you can see in the following pictures, his creations, made up with raw materials found in brocantes and junk yards and fixed without welding, are even more beautiful... they really seem alive!


photo : iansanderson

photo : iansanderson

photo : iansanderson

photo : iansanderson

photo : iansanderson

photo : iansanderson

photo : iansanderson
photo : iansanderson

Visit Edouard Martinet website to discover all his sculptures (take a look also to the insects they are amazing!):
www.edouartmartinet.com

I've already spoken about Chris Jordan twice, here and here, and I'm very happy to do it agian. His orginal artwork series "Running the numbers" has been one of the most interesting works I've seen in the last two years and I haven't spoken about it here on the blog (if not just incidentally) just because there wasn't a very strong relation with water. I'm very happy therefore that in its new series "Running the numbers II" the sea seems to be the true protagonist.

The idea behind these two series of artworks is trying to launch a message about social and environmental issues realizing images that join a nice graphical approach with the cold numbers and statistics that are behind these problems. This is possible because is artworks are realized putting together huge numbers of small elements that in the overall view create another image. The most fascinating aspect though is that the small elements are in a exact number that is related with the issue presented by the overall image. As always, however, looking the images is pretty much more understandable that an explanation:

Gyre, 2009
Depicts 2.4 million pieces of plastic, equal to the estimated number of pounds of plastic pollution that enter the world's oceans every hour. All of the plastic in this image was collected from the Pacific Ocean.









© Chris Jordan

Shark Teeth, 2009
Depicts 270,000 fossilized shark teeth, equal to the estimated number of sharks of all species killed around the world every day for their fins.









© Chris Jordan

Tuna, 2009
Depicts 20,500 tuna, the average number of tuna fished from the world's oceans every fifteen minutes









© Chris Jordan

Don't forget to visit Chris Jordan's website to see all his amazing creations. It's also possible to buy one signed copy of his book "Running the numbers - an American self portrait". I did it.