When our devices read our minds we may not need fingers. The Ascent Project imagines how the human hand will evolve in the increasingly digital world!

Miami-based artist Augusto Esquivel creates incredible sculptures from thousands and thousands of sewing buttons, placing them carefully on a fishing line.

Dan Tanenbaum uses vintage watch parts to create unique miniature motorcycles.

UK-based artist Luke Jerram creates glass-blown sculptures of viruses and bacteria, magnified approximately 1,000,000 times.

While the winter is still here many artists and creative minds try to use Mother Nature’s ready-made canvases from ice and snow to express themselves. Here are 12 literally cool examples of things made using ice and snow.

Nikolai Aldunin is the master of miniature sculptures – his sculptures are so small, that the artist needs to use a microscope throughout the process.

Neil Dawson made a 3D sculpture which actually creates a 2D illusion: his “Horizons” sculpture looks like a doodle image of a sheet of paper, drawn across the sky.

The British artist duo of Tim Noble and Sue Webster presented a “Nihilistic Optimistic” installation of six large sculptures that at a first glance look like just a random pile of crap. The magic happens once you turn the light on: the six piles of stuff all of a sudden create perfect shadows of seated people. Making order out of chaos, now that is art!

What may look like a bunch of randomly scattered poles from one side is actually an impressive sculpture of Nelson Mandela. It was constructed to recognize the 50th anniversary of his capture by the apartheid police. In 1962 the peace activist and politician was arrested and convicted of sabotage and other charges, and sentenced to life imprisonment.

It was just an ordinary metal sower sculpture in Kaunas, Lithuania up until an unknown graffiti artist painted a handful of stars on the wall behind the sculpture. Now every time the street lights are lit, the shadow of the sculpture turns into a magical star sower.