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Featured Work From The Gallery: Week 23

Each week we bring you our favorite projects from the Gallery, showcasing the best of what The Creators Project community has to offer.

Our new online Gallery provides creative professionals a platform to showcase their portfolio of work, gain exposure, build their network, find collaborators, and become eligible for funding opportunities like The Studio. The Gallery also helps fans of cutting edge creative work to discover new artists and inspiring projects. Each week we’ll be selecting a few of our favorites and bringing you the best of what The Creators Project community has to offer. To have your work featured, submit your tech-powered projects to the Gallery.

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David Thomas Smith: Anthropocene

Using patterns found in the designs of Persian rugs, these images are composites of digital files of aerial views from internet satellite images. The areas used are usually thought of as eyesores, being the industrial landscapes that fuel capitalism’s growth across the globe: airports, factories, malls—but here they’re turned into captivating art works that contradict their consumerist and manufacturing origins.

Bill Smith: Electroluminesent Mouse

Exploring nature through mechanics, this spiky icicle is a rotating sculpture that looks part organic and part alien. Smith describes it as “In nature all of what you see has underlying function. Nothing is just there to look pretty, we intuitively recognize beauty as functional efficiency and connectedness. Beauty without integral function is not real beauty, it is a reflection and is artistic trickery.”

Daniel Stoupin: Beyond the Naked Eye

In this series of microscopic photos Daniel Stoupin brings an ethereal beauty to a cast of tiny creatures that usually invoke revulsion, like the flea, or remain a mystery to most of us because we just can’t see them. He uses microscopes, sophisticated lightning and contrasting techniques to show us the living forms that inhabit the freshwater ecosystems, which include water fleas, seed shrimps and hydras less than 1cm (0.4 inches) in size.