f Beijing-based artist, Wang Zhiyuan, creates towering tornado sculptures from hundreds of plastic containers discarded as trash. The artist’s intent is to create something visually appealing while highlighting the prevalence of litter and pollution in his hometown of Beijing. This particular outdoor piece is entitled Thrown to the Wind and is 36-feet high.

John Baldessari, hailing from National City in San Diego, California, is an internationally acclaimed conceptual artist that has been been practicing from the mid twentieth century to the present. With over 200 solo shows and nearly 1,000 group shows, Baldessari's work is well known and frequently exhibited to say the least.

Coined by Hyperallergic as "instant happiness", artist Michael Jones McKean's project The Rainbow: Principles of Light and Shapes Between Forms has achieved the phenomenological triumph of creating manmade colorful arcs in the sky.

Scott Hazard is a Raleigh-based artist and landscape architect who carefully aligns torn concentric shapes within photographs to construct illusions of clouds, plumes of smokes, and portals in walls. They have a beautiful hand made quality with exceptional craft and use of lo-tech materials to create these illusionistic photo collages.