Visions Archives - Ex-Plain

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A Skeleton in the Church Window: Wim Delvoye’s X‑Ray Stained Glass

A Belgian artist turned medical X-rays into Gothic stained glass, replacing saints with skeletons and radiography with cathedral light. The…

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It's been a while since we did the last one Hope's everyone's had a good month since the last time…

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After terrorism and war erased centuries of Iraqi heritage, one artist began reconstructing the missing artifacts, creating ghostly stand-ins for…

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An artist’s rare Porsche is stripped down to its bare essentials and reimagined through Japanese craft traditions and wabi-sabi philosophy,…

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Before retreating from the spotlight, Chris Cunningham, the elusive director behind the music videos for Aphex Twin and Björk injected…

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In 1974, Soviet authorities used bulldozers, arrests, and violence to destroy an unsanctioned outdoor art exhibition, only to ignite an…

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Willingly spending two months in a Mexican prison and collaborating with the inmates, artist Scott Campbell built tattoo machines out…

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In which we rediscover the overlooked trend of ASCII art hidden inside fan-made video game guides from decades ago, created…

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We're doing a new regular feature where we collect all of the strange and wonderful things we find thanks to…

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To the left of the main entrance of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City stands a controversial bronze door that…