How to have a portable starry sky

By June this year, the Shanghai Planetarium, known as the largest planetarium in the world, will start trial operation. Just three days ago, the "Tianwen-1" probe successfully landed in the southern part of the utopia plain of Mars-these stories about the universe always seem to remind us not to forget the stars overhead and the night sky.

Ria Strija

Sarah Shackle

This is your portable galaxy.

Earlier this month, VOGUE interviewed the artist Sara Shakeel because of a photo of Billie Erliche's "exclusive bling bling Special Effects".

Sarah Shaker

Shaker's creation originated from a period of depression in 20 17. That year, at the age of 27, her application for dental qualification was rejected many times. Shackle, who felt out of place in society, began to make collages in his bedroom with his only old mobile phone, trying to heal himself.

Shaker chose crystal to create collage art works, partly because she has a deep memory of playing with her grandmother's crystal collection when she was a child ("the color of crystal will change with my every move") and also because of her own open artistic concept. In her words: "Art is related to the concept of creating the whole self, which is by no means limited to painting, music, drama, performance and other forms."

Sarah Shaker

In addition to the graceful form, Shackle continues to inject emotional connotation into her works. For example, in another account @ glitterstretchmarks, Shakeel painted scars, stains and stretch marks with crystals, because she felt that this was "what they looked like in the eyes of God".

Sarah Shaker

On 20 19, Shakeel also cooperated with rapper Chance the Rapper to make a transparent crystal physical record. They took a photo of the record and put it on the cover of the latter's new album "Big Day". In the same year, inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper, Shakeel exhibited a set of sparkling dining tables and chairs in London's NOW Gallery, aiming to make people feel the simple happiness of a family talking around the dining table.

The cover of the album "Big Day"

Sarah Shaker

If there is anything you want to share with other emerging artists, Shackle's advice is not to imitate others and waste time, "because there are endless and unparalleled new ideas in your brain." Regarding the future creative plan, Shakeel hopes to wrap a whole huge building with crystals in reality. "That would be the eighth wonder of the world."

02 laila ab

There are stars everywhere in my house.

Unlike Shackle who decorated the whole world with stars, the artist nicknamed lyla_ab, most of ta's magic only happened in his own home.

You may have heard the poem "The moon shines on my bed, and the milky way is still young at night". Lying in the artist's imaginary bed and looking up at the clouds and the moon outside the window, we can probably feel the flow of the Milky Way. The only difference is that the scenery outside the window has been moved to indoor curtains and sheets.

Laila ab

In the artist's imagination, the room is brighter during the day. The water in the bathtub, the clothes on the balcony, the tea in the cup and the cat in the box are all wrapped in a bright silver substance. When we walk around the room in star clothes, our bodies will have a flashing effect.

Laila ab

Although these whimsical imaginations have won a lot of praise and wonder, this anonymous artist is extremely low-key, and you can hardly find any information about ta on the Internet. This sweet and magical world created by Ta has also aroused the idea that netizens want to really visit here. "Can I come to your house to play?" The artist disagreed. Ta just said that she was a dreamer who was sleeping soundly.

Laila ab

03 Bruno ElBaradei

Go to another planet to play

Bruno Baraldi, a 29-year-old Brazilian artist, is making our fantasies about the universe come true one by one by arranging the vast space with tiny portraits.

In Bruno's works, cosmic cars, trains, ships and planes have all become the means of transportation for human beings to go to the universe. After arriving at the destination, there are restaurants, hotels and gas stations for us to rest and continue our journey.

Bruno ElBaradei

Bruno's cleverness lies in his use of curious children as observers. There are really too many miracles in his world. Compared with the earth landscape that people have become accustomed to, there are huge jellyfish, birds and even elephants floating in the sky here. When we set foot on the land here, people will meet a huge cat by chance.

Bruno ElBaradei

The artist's imagination of the universe is much more special than this: he will enlarge a watermelon to the size of a planet and then show the cut fruit to people; Out of admiration for the power of women, he will also place huge and quiet female statues all over the earth: "I don't know why, I feel that women exude a powerful gas field. As long as I am around them, I will feel strong. "

Bruno ElBaradei

Although the young artist is very imaginative, he has not actually received a complete art education. He grew up in a conservative Catholic school. When I grew up, I chose to leave to study advertising because of my rebellious personality. On 20 14, I started collage creation. Bruno in life is also a DJ and a game lover. He is also relaxed about his future creative plans: he hopes to create giant collages through street posters.

Bruno ElBaradei

Roger matos

Watching the stars together?

In 20 18, another Brazilian artist, Roger matos, began to establish his fantasy of the universe through collage because of a bad personal experience. Unlike Bruno Baiardi's strong color matching, most of Roger's works are mainly soft colors with romantic flavor, such as pink, blue and orange.

Roger matos

Roger matos

Different from these busy traffic scenes, Roger's imaginary planet itself can be described as bland, mostly a gray desolate land. People stopped by the roadside in twos and threes and looked back at the scenery of the earth. Because there are no seats, they often have to stand or sit on the floor-some are friends who come out for interstellar sightseeing together, some are adults and children, and some are like lovers who are dating.

So, why do people want to leave the bustling life on earth and come here? Maybe it's just because it's far and empty enough to talk to people you like without being disturbed.

Roger matos

05 Nathan Hyde

Stars living in water

Nathan hyde

Unlike the stars in the sky, the stars in Nathan's works seem to grow and live in the ocean. You can even "interpret" the personalities and lifestyles of different stars through these pictures. The lively stars are often bustling in the turbulent waves; Lazy stars, under the irradiation of sunlight, seem to be sunburned; A quiet star lives in a strange place. If it weren't for a few lights in the distance, they might never be found.

Ron Jude

Perhaps in order to let people watch these wonderful creatures in the ocean more closely, Nathan also creatively "created" a number of sightseeing subways leading to this ocean: there is often an endless flat sea outside the subway window, and the image is covered with a layer of candy-like dreaminess, as if to remind people that you and I are in a unique zone different from the real world.

Ron Jude

In addition to the scattered sea surface, the flashing of the water surface in the swimming pool also attracted Nathan's attention. The square mosaic at the bottom of the pool seems to be the neatly arranged stars in their unique creation, which varies with the change of water flow-in the artist's mind, stars can exist in any water area in ta's eyes.

Sarah Shaker

06 Riya Strija

My body is composed of starry sky.

Human enthusiasm for the starry sky is contagious: inspired by Sara Shakeel, Strija, a visual artist who just started to create last year, has also found an equally shining but unique creative form: painting the characters in classic paintings in black and then decorating them with stars.

Ria Strija

In Leah Strija's view, only by using the wisdom in darkness can we truly understand the light, and through this little darkness, the original shining works become more mysterious, powerful and full of space. The darkness of the characters and the embellished light complement each other. What Leah Strija may want to express is that he hopes that people in the depths of darkness will always be accompanied and comforted by starlight at different times.

Ria Strija

As an artist who is also popular on Instagram, riasteria has revealed almost no other personal information except marking her geographical location as "Space" in her data. Ta just said that these works are actually a creation between the earth and the universe. "They are strange to the earth, but belong to human beings to the universe." The reason for creating these works is nothing more than to encourage those lonely people, "Don't be afraid, the whole universe is in your heart."

Ria Strija

Seeing these "starry sky people" snuggling up to human beings, it's hard not to imagine something more distant: human beings are small and lonely, but who can say that the distant starry sky can't be our eternal companion?