John Grade is a Seattle-based artist who creates monumental installations that significantly alter the viewers’ experience of architecture and nature. Gritty, industrial materials are Grade’s trademark. He likes his work to have weight in an almost precarious sort of way, as if the piece might give and crush the viewer at any second. Inspired by the land art movement of the ’60s and ’70s, Grade’s work echoes the scale and impact of famous Earthworks like Spiral Jetty, though most of his interventions take place inside of museum and gallery environments rather than the land itself.
Nonetheless, Grade forges a connection between the natural and the manmade. His piece Capacitor (pictured above), which first appeared at the Kohler Arts Center in Wisconsin in 2013, utilized a mechanism that compared historical weather data with realtime data from sensors on the museum’s roof. The more the current weather data differed from the historical norm, the more the sculpture moved and glowed. Inserting bits of architecture into nature and organic shapes into otherwise structured environments, Grade invites new perspectives on the places we inhabit.
Memphis based artist Josh Breeden, who goes by the moniker 
Masaya Hashimoto's images of pure white plants might not look like anything remarkable until you realize what they are made out of: the self taught artist crafts them out of the fine bone and antlers from deer near his home in Japan. In some ways, his sculptures are a byproduct of where he lived for nearly a decade, a mountain Buddhist temple where he was given the chance to closely observe the life cycle of plants and flowers like irises and chrysanthemums.
Photo Credit: Andrew Beveridge/ASB Creative Australia-based artist