Graphic Rewilding

Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Transform our Health by Proffesor Daisy Fancourt is a fascinating book and well worth a read.

It was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction.

Her research synthesised over 3,000 studies and positioned the arts as the forgotten fifth pillar of health — alongside diet, sleep, exercise and nature. Key finding: regular cultural engagement reduces the risk of developing depression by 48%. Also calculated the health and wellbeing value of cultural engagement in the UK at £18.6 billion — the first time that figure has been fully quantified.

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Looking back on our first tentative experiments with art on glass in derelict buildings and our studio, it was utterly impossible to imagine we’d end up creating vast artworks all over the world covering nearly 2500 square meters of glass with our maximsliat nature imagery. For context, that’s windows for about 5 decent sized cathedrals.

FLOWER CLOUD FLOATABLES

We want people to be totally enveloped in surreal, humungous, maximalist floatables. The cloud silhouette from of our Flower Cloud sculptural benches, lifted off the ground and hung overhead, borrowing the floating logic of previous inflatable artworks like Garden of My Imagination, rounded out and softened.

NOT AI. Built in 3D with our own fair hands.

Absolutely FANTASTIC to see our animation projected onto The Design Museum of Barcelona as part of OFFF Barcelona - long live MICROSCOPIC MAXIMALISM! 🌸🌸🌸

Huge thanks to .studio

Reading some properly fascinating research recently on how we look at art these days. A study in Bologna using AI cameras tracked museum visitors and found the average person now spends just 4 to 5 seconds in front of a painting. Even the Mona Lisa only holds people for about 15 seconds at the Louvre.

We’re not really looking anymore - we’re scanning, glancing, ticking things off, moving on.

Olivia Meehan’s lovely book Slow Looking makes the case that this simple act of really paying attention is becoming a lost art. I think she’s onto something. And with our public art, we want to give people a few minutes of pause in their hectic day - hopefully mitigating some of the negative effects of our ever-increasing pace of life.

A few more images from our latest artwork, Fleeting Opulance, in New York.

If you’re in the area, a fantastic time to see the interior glass art is around sunset, for rich golden colours, deep reflections and an ethereal atmosphere.

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