Obama Art Keeps Coming!

Full Body Transplant is the blog of Rian Fike, a Miami artist and teacher. In an entry called "President Obama, the Artist," he presented some of the work he did during the election cycle and talked about how it was inspired. He found that Barack Obama supports the arts in education, and considers them important to society. Rian also presented the work of

Michael Murphy

, exhibited at Georgia College. (For the full impact, you must go to his site directly, for you can see closeups, for detail.)

The black protruberances are carefully-driven nails!

This piece is shown from several angles, at several distances, but impressed me most displayed thus.

This is a wire piece - the video below is amazing!

Peep Art

For Christy and Turtle

Christy - you asked for Asian art, Asian art you shall get.

Turtle - here is your favorite deity.

These are various statues of Guanyin (also spelled Kwan Yin), the Buddhist bodhisattva of compassion, and Asia's most famous transgender woman (since Guanyin was male in India and Tibet, but turned female in China). I took these photos at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum last month. Sorry if these are a bit blurry; I had to take these photos with the flash off.

Various forms of Guanyin. These are Chinese examples, about 700-1000 years old.

Another Guanyin, this one is in jade. Circa 13th century, if I remember right.

Here's a male Kannon (Japanese Guanyin), from the 12th century.
Electronics company Canon was named after Kannon.