Acrylic paint, oil, water, and air combine to create ephemeral sculptures in Alberto Seveso’s “Bubbles Experience” series. I love the mixture of shapes he achieves, from large, seemingly-laminar columns to Keep reading
Tag: fluids as art
Ascending Through Bubbles
Photographer Lucie Pollet caught this image of her freediving friend ascending through a plume of bubbles and sunlight. I love the otherworldliness of the image, like the diver is an Keep reading
Beautiful Waves
Australian photographer Ray Collins captures some of the most impressively dynamic photographs of ocean waves I’ve ever seen. The textures of the water range from glassy smooth to scaled to Keep reading
Flow Between Fibers
Two vertical fibers, with a gap left between them, form a playground for flow in this Gallery of Fluid Motion video. If the fiber spacing is small enough, the flow Keep reading
Recreating the Rings of Power Opening
Everyone loves a good title sequence, especially when they feature neat visuals. Many who watched “The Rings of Power” zeroed in immediately on their use of cymatics — visuals born Keep reading
“Crystallizing Epsom Salts”
Candy-colored crystals emerge from a salty liquid in this macro video of Epsom salt crystallization by Karl Gaff. The video was an honorable mention in the 2022 edition of the Keep reading
The Delta Series
It’s easy in the rush of our daily lives to forget just how dynamic rivers are. In his “Delta Series” conservation photographer Paul Nicklen explores that ever-changing nature from above Keep reading
A Comet’s Tail Swept Away
On Christmas Day 2021, Comet Leonard put on a show in our skies. Though the comet was a pale streak to the naked eye, photographer Gerald Rhemann caught a striking Keep reading
Dripping Glaze on Ceramics
Candy-colored glaze oozes down the sides of Brian Giniewski’s Drippy Pots. These mugs seem like a great way to the start the day with a little happy, fluidsy action! (Image Keep reading
Flowers Through a Hazy Veil
A smoke-like haze obscures colorful bouquets in these photographs from artist Robert Peek. To achieve the effect, Peek submerges his subjects underwater with white dye that sinks due to its Keep reading