Dewdrop

I think this is just about the most beautiful collection of label designs, all featured on Japanese match boxes  from the 1920s -1940s. I love the colour palettes and how unique each and every one is. Also, the textures are just incredible.  You can view the entire collection here: Jane McDevitt on Flickr. 

I woke up to some pretty terrible news today. I found out someone named Jeanette Hayes (NYC “artist”; not be confused with London Jeanette Hayes) stole my artwork by unlawfully using it without my permission, never bothering to contact or credit me, modifying it, treating it as her sole work, and selling it for a huge sum of money.

And the worst part is, I’m not the only victim. 

She’s stolen from several dozen other artists, sometimes not even attributing but fully replicating, and the galleries won’t do a thing about it except continue to back her up. When she’s confronted on the matter, she simply blocks people or deletes the comments; same with any media-outlet hosting or promoting her. In the end money talks. I don’t believe this to be artistic expression in good faith. Based on her notoriety and her responses, she’s clearly belittling the art and the artists whose works she steals from.

And really, whatever pretentious excuse is made on behalf of this “contemporary art”, it’s really just vandalism to me; absent of my feelings on the matter, absent of my love for the subject matter, absent of respect for me; because my artwork isn’t just some official stock art to be used freely.

I don’t want more people to have to feel this way, and the galleries need to know that this isn’t okay, and that this sort of behaviour shouldn’t be endorsed.

Here’s the link to the gallery: https://www.artsy.net/artwork/jeanette-hayes-there-will-be-blood Here’s the email of the gallery:  [email protected] Here’s a Buzzfeed article on some of the other works she’s stolen: https://www.buzzfeed.com/krishrach/an-artist-has-been-accused-of-plagiarizing-japanese-artists?utm_term=.ra8k96k63#.qdBDvoDoQ

Kuroki Mitsuko 黒木美都子 (1991 - ).

Bateau marchand japonais “la route de nord” 

Navires impliqués dans la route qui passait de la baie d'ōsaka-wan 大阪湾, à travers la mer intérieure de Seto-naikai 瀬戸内海 et les détroits Kanmon-kaikyō 関門海峡 vers les ports de Hokuriku-chihō 北陸地方 “Terre du Nord” région de Hokuriku, sur la mer du Japon, Nihonkai 日本海, et plus tard à Hokkaidō 北海道.

Carte de la route empruntée.

illustration de navires dans une baie.

Kitamae-bune appelée Kojinmaru (1861). 

Exemple : le domaine de Kaga-han 加賀藩 ou kanazawa-han 金沢藩, vendait environ 70 000 koku 石 (1) de riz chaque année dans Ōsaka-shi 大阪市 et envoyait 100 koku par bateau à travers cette voie.

(1) koku 石 - unité de volume définissant une quantité de riz - 1石 = environ 180.39 litres pour 1 pers/an.