Alleyway House By Formwerkz Architects // Singapore

Crops from one of the giant Heaven and Hell illustrations I did for Cards Against Humanity back in 2016. This is from the Heaven illustration. The full thing is 1 foot by 6 foot at intended viewing size. The intended style was a sort of Bosch meets where’s waldo. 

The Castle of the Pyrenees via Rene Magritte

Size: 145x200 cm Medium: oil, canvas

lit 🔥

Rinko Kawauchi, Ametsuchi series (2012-2013)

What inspired me was a dream I had one day. It was of scenery so amazingly beautiful that it made me almost scared. I woke up thinking how beautiful it was. I wasn’t sure if that location really existed, but if it did, I wanted to visit it. About six months later, I saw what I saw in my dream on TV. The location did exist. I found out that was I saw was called noyaki. It is the practice of protecting a grassland by burning a field. It has been done for about thirteen hundred years. Without noyaki, a field would turn into woods. Beautiful grassland cannot be maintained without burning the field once a year. What amazes me is that it doesn’t happen naturally but is maintained by human intervention. I am very much interested in the flow and cycle of human practices. It is not only the theme for Ametsuchi but also a foundation of all my work.

Before the show.

The Ninth Wave (details), 1850 oil on canvas Ivan Aivazovsky

alessandro mendini + shiro kuramata

猫の群れが降った

Beautiful Kyrgyz landscape with traditional felt rugs