Jakob Grosse-Ophoff is an artist in Rostock, Germany who uses a variety of media, including paint, but has become famous on the internet for his kinetic sculptures. These mixed media pieces amuse audiences while simultaneously commenting about human societies.
I'm especially taken with the broadly-named Humanity, which pokes fun at our tendency to destroy ourselves needlessly. Like most of Grosse-Ophoff's sculptures, the human form is rendered in roughly-hewn wood. I take this choice to present a timelessness to the human condition.
-via Massimo