This is something that you don't see very often and I would consider it to be unique artwork. Chinese artist Li Hongbo transforms and carves out metal sculptures in knives and he has a huge collection of beautiful works of art.  What do you think?

I stumbled across this artist recently and thought his work was not only inspiring, but a great example on how beautiful upcycled art can be. Haroshi, a Japanese skateboarder turned artist makes these masterpieces out of old skateboard decks, and even uses broken hardware for the interior of his three dimensional pieces. If you have ever skateboarded, you know how quickly you can accumulate a stack of broken decks. Nothing goes to waste, I like Haroshi's style. Check out more of his work here.

Artist Sonia Rentsch has created in her Harm Less series, weapons made of plants. They were created to defuse the power of modern weaponry by constructing guns, grenades and bullets completely from organic objects. The shape and form of each piece are really convincing, yet I also enjoy the obviousness of each plant chosen to resemble various gun parts. Check out more of Sonia work on her site.

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Artist Marta Klonowska carefully created these beautiful glass animals out of shards of colorful glass. She assembled these translucent animals in life-like proportion and size. Her work appeared most recently at European Glass Context 2012, and you can see more images over on lorch + seidel contemporary.



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Kota Hiratsuka a Japanese paper engineer has created these complex and beautiful origami mosaics. They rely on cut and folded geometric patterns to create these images below. Kota plans on turning these designs into various templates as downloadable PDFs through his website but not just yet.  In the mean time you can check out more of his work on his site and on Flickr.



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This awesome sculpture was made of resin and recycled computer keys by Babis Cloud and it sure is sweet looking. The piece is titled Hedonism(y) Trojaner, derived from the giant mythological Trojan horse.  I'm just assuming that on some level he refers this horse to the negative aspects of technology (viruses, irrational dependence on computers), but you can read a bit more explanation over on iGNANT.



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