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Strange juxtapositions: The funny and unsettling photographs of Ambera Wellmann | Dangerous Minds 2017-08-16, 705 AM FOLLOW US ON: GET THE NEWSLETTER CONTACT US SEARCH HOME ARTICLES ADVERTISE TOPICS CONTRIBUTORS ARCHIVES STRANGE JUXTAPOSITIONS: THE FUNNY AND UNSETTLING PHOTOGRAPHS OF AMBERA WELLMANN 08.07.2017 02:41 pm Topics: Amusing Art Tags: photography Instagram Ambera Wellmann It all started out as a bit of fun when artist Ambera Wellmann “plunked” an egg into a watermelon. The strangely irrational satisfaction Wellmann felt when combining these two foods started her visual investigation into juxtaposing unlikely objects together. The end results have been described as funny, creepy, and even “gross.” Take, for example, the toilet with a wig which looks like Donald Trump. Or, noodles sprouting from a bikini line making us think about pubic hair. Or what about the close-up of seemingly wrinkled FEATURED ARTICLES hand with a bra sketched which becomes some grand dame by a pool in Miami? Mystical cats & smoking foxes: The fantasy animal world of Femke Hiemstra The best artists make the viewer see the world anew. Ambera Wellmann certainly does this. She takes her photographs quickly using whatever objects she has to hand. This Stevie Nicks will fuck you up usually means food, clothes, and her own body: Spiritwalkers: Incredible early footage of The Cult when they were known as ‘Southern Death Cult’ Calf born on July 28 looks exactly like Gene Simmons FROM OUR PARTNERS AT VICE of KISS The Ladybirds: The world’s first all-girl topless rock band(s) Wild and inscrutable ‘Dune’ trading cards “I enjoy manipulating context and composition to defamiliarize these David Lee Roth’s insane isolated vocals from ‘Runnin’ things and illuminate the conventions that structure our understanding With the Devil’ make a really great ringtone of, or attraction to them. I try to make materials behave like something other than themselves.” Ambera Wellmann is primarily a painter who also works in porcelain and sculpture. Originally from Nova Scotia, Wellmann won the Joseph Plaskett Award for “her virtuosic painting abilities and her confidence in engaging the grotesque and the http://dangerousminds.net/comments/strange_juxtapositions_the_funny_and_unsettling_photographs_of_ambera_wellm Page 1 of 7 Strange juxtapositions: The funny and unsettling photographs of Ambera Wellmann | Dangerous Minds 2017-08-16, 705 AM uncanny” in 2016. The award allowed the artist to travel to Europe where she based herself in Germany. Since posting that first egg in a watermelon picture in 2015, Wellmann has been producing and posting an impressive array of her improvised photos which you can see on her Instagram account. http://dangerousminds.net/comments/strange_juxtapositions_the_funny_and_unsettling_photographs_of_ambera_wellm Page 2 of 7 Strange juxtapositions: The funny and unsettling photographs of Ambera Wellmann | Dangerous Minds 2017-08-16, 705 AM http://dangerousminds.net/comments/strange_juxtapositions_the_funny_and_unsettling_photographs_of_ambera_wellm Page 3 of 7 Strange juxtapositions: The funny and unsettling photographs of Ambera Wellmann | Dangerous Minds 2017-08-16, 705 AM http://dangerousminds.net/comments/strange_juxtapositions_the_funny_and_unsettling_photographs_of_ambera_wellm Page 4 of 7 Strange juxtapositions: The funny and unsettling photographs of Ambera Wellmann | Dangerous Minds 2017-08-16, 705 AM http://dangerousminds.net/comments/strange_juxtapositions_the_funny_and_unsettling_photographs_of_ambera_wellm Page 5 of 7 Strange juxtapositions: The funny and unsettling photographs of Ambera Wellmann | Dangerous Minds 2017-08-16, 705 AM Via Ambera Wellmann and Creators Project. Posted by Paul Gallagher | 2 Comments 1464 2 7 ! " # $ % http://dangerousminds.net/comments/strange_juxtapositions_the_funny_and_unsettling_photographs_of_ambera_wellm Page 6 of 7.

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