inspiration blog for MissJamieKaye

I’ve been feeling sick of being in the city and far from any real nature for a while now so I made an ‘ideal’ kind of place I wish I could live in instead to help cope haha.

Argentinean sculptor Adrián Villar Rojas creates enormous sculptural works that seem like remnants of a science fiction movie set, or bizarre moments from a surreal dream.

The awesome piece you see here is entitled My Family Dead (2009). Here a life-size blue whale, created by the artist, lies beached in the woods outside Ushuaia, Argentina. The stranded cetacean is pockmarked with tree stumps, which leaves the viewer wondering if it’s being slowly claimed by the forest or perhaps it’s a native resident. Beautiful and utterly awesome.

[via Colossal]

This post is popular because it’s a cool piece of art. It’s also popular because someone rewrote the description to imply that this was a real whale that dragged itself up on the land and into a forest. That made it the 9th most popular post of 2012 on Geyser of Awesome.