One of the latest collections explores Symbolism & Iconography in the Pop Art style, with a touch of glitch. These are collected original photographs, many of statues, that are layered and accented with graphic design features and other botanical photographs. It’s interesting to juxtapose the ancient and the modern, and technology with nature; to ponderContinue reading “Exploring Symbolism With The Pop Art Iconography Collection”
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Multimedia Update: Rococo & Deco Geometric Photography + Forthcoming Album On OCTAVES
There is a lot of new work this month in May, with more to be posted! This particular group in the slideshow represents an ornate, rococo style of tree canopy photography. The layouts are decidedly baroque. And this is all original photography using various programs for editing. One topic that appears here is the amazingContinue reading “Multimedia Update: Rococo & Deco Geometric Photography + Forthcoming Album On OCTAVES”
Featured Artwork In May Includes Cubism, Symbolism & Surrealism
New pieces so far in May 2025, continue a nature focus with a hi-tech flair. The Cirrus Arc selections explore on a large scale modern cubism to express the motion of atmosphere, especially the arc or Fibonacci like spiral. The spiral theme continues also with the works including the Triskelion. The Triskelion is a pieceContinue reading “Featured Artwork In May Includes Cubism, Symbolism & Surrealism”
Featured Art Collection: Signal & Noise + Studio Multimedia Update
As 2025 begins, this mini collection “Signal & Noise” harkens back to 2022 and then to the end of 2024, year of the dragon, with strong medicinal associations in Chinese culture. The cubist / op art photo collages of glitching screens are put together in such a way as to make new patterns out ofContinue reading “Featured Art Collection: Signal & Noise + Studio Multimedia Update”
Studio Multimedia Update: Moments With Nature, The 2025 Grammys & More
The latest studio multimedia starts off with new (and old) additions to the Studio Shangri-La conceptual online photography catalogs – here of course, and also TurningArt and Saatchi Art. The above original with graphic design is “Khepri’s Sunflower,” named for the ancient Egyptian hieroglyph of the beetle, representing bringing something into being or to create.Continue reading “Studio Multimedia Update: Moments With Nature, The 2025 Grammys & More”
Studio Shangri-La Multimedia Update: Music, Art & Science
It’s been an fun and exciting multimedia summer so far, and that promises to continue, beginning with the OCTAVES Music release schedule, the continuation of SS publications, upcoming art commissions, plus ongoing research in sustainability, design & innovation. Music =Sarah Ikerd • Electric Echoes: A Cosmic Tech Opera (out now) Sarah Ikerd • The GreatContinue reading “Studio Shangri-La Multimedia Update: Music, Art & Science”
Colorfield Light Photography
Accompanying recent research and experimentation with light, this is a new series of photographs that look like abstract colorfield paintings, yet they are realistically the behaviors of light, or sunlight shining on reflective or diffractive surfaces. They can be produced in a few different formats, including digital. Here’s the shop link: https://studioshangrila.myshopify.com/collections/colorfield. These are alsoContinue reading “Colorfield Light Photography”
The Abstract Realism Of Nature
The colorful photography seen here looks abstract, yet it’s also realistic. “Light Angel” is sunlight shining on diffraction grating paper to produce beautiful spectral line patterns and accompanies current research; “Magentropy” is an edited close-up of cracking paint. While for many paintings the cracking effect would be considered degradation or breakdown that art restoration attemptsContinue reading “The Abstract Realism Of Nature”
Studio Shangri-La Art & Music Update
FIrst up in the art department, here are a few new nature portraits, thanks to the tropical South Beach Miami flora. They are all three silhouettes for a dramatic modern effect, and available on TurningArt and Saatchi Art in multiple formats. Next is a throwback to 2018, a series of fifty original 18”x24” charcoal drawings calledContinue reading “Studio Shangri-La Art & Music Update”
Art + Science: “Electrocardiogram” & “Infinite Metamorphosis”
“Electrocardiogram” is 4’x3’ painting based on the skull as a symbol of life. The structure of bone is built on a hexagonal crystalline apatite structure. And the hexagonal or carbon ring you can see at the center of “Infinite Metamorphosis.” The hexagon is a fundamental shape of life’s chemistry. The fall leaves are the transitionContinue reading “Art + Science: “Electrocardiogram” & “Infinite Metamorphosis””
Studio Multimedia Update: Art & Music, Podcast
The latest output from the studio includes a few “hi-tech” botanicals that transition into fall with the color scheme. The florals have proven popular and are always fun to make. (Art is watermarked here.) Unlike a lot of the music cover art lately, I do not use AI for photography, and certainly not for theContinue reading “Studio Multimedia Update: Art & Music, Podcast”
Studio Shangri-La Featured Enviro Art: “Guardians”
Studio Shangri-La • Guardians :: The feeling of this photo piece is that nature made us & nature is making us come together. Also influenced by respect for animals & their sentience & intelligence, an important issue featured in latest Guardians Of The Galaxy movie. These are crows mid flight in Somerville, MA. See alsoContinue reading “Studio Shangri-La Featured Enviro Art: “Guardians””
Studio Project Update: Large Scale Digital + Upcycled Glass
The very latest Studio Shangri-La project to go live is a digital animation of some of the hi tech botanicals / visions of biosynergy, contributing to “The Conversation” by HHH Studio at Assembly Row, Somerville, MA on the Puma building. Humans are nature & even plant made (see:evolution), plus plants sustain us daily and provideContinue reading “Studio Project Update: Large Scale Digital + Upcycled Glass”
Studio Shangri-La ‘Hi Tech Botanical’ Feature: Arrowroot / Canna Lily
Continuing the hi tech botanical series, as plants are routinely so, just in a different way and so sophisticated there is much yet to learn. They’ve been evolving far longer in their realm! Canna Lily / Arrowroot has a number of edible and medicinal uses, the most common of which is the root being usedContinue reading “Studio Shangri-La ‘Hi Tech Botanical’ Feature: Arrowroot / Canna Lily”
Studio Shangri-La Art Of The Day: Flower Fusion Reactor Core
The latest in a brightly colored series is “Flower Fusion Reactor Core” inspired by the power & energy of nature, as well as the new frontiers in technology, often best informed and influenced by earth sciences. Really, it all seems like earth or cosmic sciences split into subcategories! Anyway, this exuberant piece is made ofContinue reading “Studio Shangri-La Art Of The Day: Flower Fusion Reactor Core”
Studio Shangri-La Fine Art Features: Color Block + New Mixed Media
The latest experimentation is with color block or color field style, inspired by the prominent painter Rothko. expander, named for the op art sort of shape here, concept of the broad color spectrum and dimensional universe, and also the chakras, the energetics centers, or loci of the body. The affect was achieved with an openContinue reading “Studio Shangri-La Fine Art Features: Color Block + New Mixed Media”
Studio Shangri-La Fine Art Feature: Urban Wildflower Variations
Happy to present this fresh mini-series for June. The main featured flower here is the Purple Crown or Securigaria, a wild flower that prevents erosion. Here it’s mixed in with other grasses, as they do naturally, and photographed in an urban environment in which they can grow in their wild beauty. The most obvious clearContinue reading “Studio Shangri-La Fine Art Feature: Urban Wildflower Variations”
Studio Shangri-La Pop Art Feature: “Floating Hibiscus”
Studio Shangri-La • Floating Hibiscus • The foundation of everything is supreme beauty. The material is the spiritual & the spiritual is the material. There is more than meets the eye. Looking beyond the surface into the bioelectric realm, of a flower for instance, reveals its complex energy systems that inspire human technology. The mundaneContinue reading “Studio Shangri-La Pop Art Feature: “Floating Hibiscus””
Studio Shangri-La Fine Art Feature: Hi Tech Botanical As ‘Religious Art’
Studio Shangri-La • Deep Tropic • windows and panels. Earth is the church — These are made to look like stained glass windows and panels, making use of beautiful symmetry & asymmetry, and making ‘religious art’ of nature, because we come from nature. One thing I find interesting about the process – When working withContinue reading “Studio Shangri-La Fine Art Feature: Hi Tech Botanical As ‘Religious Art’”
Studio Shangri-La Art Of The Day: Tricolor Lupine Panel, sublimation on metal
Today’s feature is new hi-tech botanical and especially exuberant for summer. This is made of a few photos of lupines and is another biosynergy-inspired layout. Available Direct & in multiple formats + gear on: Saatchi Art TurningArt Society6
Star Core I & II by Studio Shangri-La
Conceptual abstract photography on the expression of light / photons, for me a form of reverence. This is duo is also formed from light reflections on metal. The abstraction imagines thermonuclear fusion, awesome cosmic power, and imagining stars as vast data transmission centers, since light carries information. I’m also inspired by my ongoing studies bothContinue reading “Star Core I & II by Studio Shangri-La”