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“No one understands the lonely perfection of my dreams. I found perfection here, I created it”

Some classes ago (maybe a lot) we looked at some big hits in traditional Japanese art. Among the beautiful pieces we saw, having for example the famous The great wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai and other prints by that big artist, the Ukiyo-e style was really prominent. Long story short, Ukiyo-e is the name of the most famous genre of Japanese art. As we were told, this genre mostly depicts typical subjects, religious and folk scenes, flora and fauna and some raunchy stuff called shunga.

Ukiyo-e has been really influential in the Western world because of the displays of dimension and depth and the way nature is shown. But it also has been a big influence on the career of Takato Yamamoto.

Takato Yamamoto was born on January 15 (so he’s a Capricorn and that’s funny because he loves his work and became famous doing his thing as most lucky caps) fifty seven years ago. He studied painting at Tokyo Zokei Uni and he developed a style called Ukiyo-e Pop which he later re-defined as “Heisei aesthetics” in the nineties and early 2000 s, the Heisei era in Japanese traditional eras. There are a lot of Western and European influences in his pieces, as there is a lot of skulls, blood and other edgy-dark elements, nudism and sex themes, nature and plays on traditional topics. He even has a print with some girls that look like Elizabeth Siddal, the model of pre-raphaelites (the redhead girl from Ophelia, Proserpine, Medea and English art in general who looks like Florence + the Machine). 

I think this guy makes really good prints and he really has a talented vision of art. Anyways, sometimes he’s too edgy for me and he has a serious problem with the same face syndrome. At the end of the day, though, I love his use of color and how he composes, I read that he has even been compared to Gustav Klimt (the guy behind The Kiss) because of how he merges elements and color. But again, a lot of his art looks like early 200 s Death Note fan art and the works a talented 2005 eroguro would have made.

Now I’ll leave you with his most famous work + stuff I really love. The last one is my personal favorite because of how delicate the whole scene looks and the golden ornaments outside the main illustration. I also love the inuyasha-like picture. I’m sure I’ve seen the other ones a lot in social networks or whatsapp profiles. Sorry for the long post!!

Artwork by Luger (AKA Arion AKA Rip Colt AKA Jim French).

DIE MAENNER VON WEERDINGE by @swanfloatieknight

Summary

Im Juni 1904 findet ein Torfstecher im Bourtanger Moor zwei Leichen, deren “intime” Fundposition lange Zeit Anlass zu dem Glauben gab, sie wären ein Ehepaar.

Erst später fand man durch eine DNA-Analyse heraus, dass beide Personen männlich waren. Die Radio-Carbon-Methode datiert ihren Todeszeitpunkt auf die Zeit zwischen 50v. und 40n. Chr.

Ich habe ein kleines Trauma von den beiden, dass ich hier versuche, zu verarbeiten xD

Two men were found preserved in an intimate embrace in a peat bog. This is the story of how they got there. Sad! MCD (obviously - spoiler - they die)

Binding

only 1k words. 20 pages including the cover.

Another adventure in “zine” style publishing for extremely short fics.

Title in Norse

Text in Garamond

Decorative elements from Jonas Lau Markussen and a Dover book

Printed on Neenah Astroparche Natural text and cover.

Hand sewn in red thread.

Date completed: August 2020

Velvetworm, Ooperipatellus viridimaculatus, Peripatopsidae, New Zealand

Like all velvetworms, this species is a nocturnal ambush predator that subdues its prey by squirting glue-like slime from glands near the mouth to entrap it.