baby art blog

(photo: hippiecoco)

i’ve survived it! – it’s petrifying but i do enjoy meeting “fans” – especially as 90% are young females – tho in fact it felt too much like a factory line – i was too busy rubber-stamping and scribbling-in “this book belongs to” names (occasionally incorrectly!) – and had little time to do more than glance up, say “thank you” and sometimes shake hands, before the next person ushered in – no time for chat with favorite girls (hello rin! hello akaneko!) – tho many still left an impression (hello merolly!) – particularly a girl at the end standing very unsteady, maybe wanting to say something but ended up breaking into tears (i only made one girl cry this time – i must be losing my touch?!) – counterbalancing that emotion there were also those who looked utterly bored and indifferent! – also gracing the gallery with their presence were the ethereal minori – and moirachan finding time before going off to see babymetal live

seven red dots counted (thus far) – which i’m happy about (as half expecting to find nothing sold!) – one bought by a mental asylum doctor (why does that make me feel worried she likes my art?!) – and embarrassingly discovered cat pee on one painting (i’m not going to say which one) : /

akaneko prezzies

rin and kinoco handiwork

moira bumper bundle of fun

(photo: hippiecoco)

～女の子戦争～
15 to 26 may 2013 – bunkamura gallery

today setting up exhibition – which i wasn’t required to participate in much – as everything more or less done by the time i arrived – i was however called upon to sign countless hundreds of books : (

the book, hot and wet off the press, looks spiffing – a huge improvement on the drab printing of “alice” – special edition has fluorescent yellow lettering – mini-book also fab

there is a little surprise in the exhibition (a big surprise for me in fact) – but more on that later…

(photo: editions treville)

addendum: setting up pix on editions treville blog

i have a painting (probably!) in this group show at span art gallery, 04 to 15 june – i don’t understand the theme tho – erotic not erotic, something “fuwafuwa” (fluffy), explains mrs brown most helpfully – a complete mystery to me f’sure – i guess it doesn’t really matter too much – i’ve just started – three weeks to do something i don’t know what i’m doing (the paint will still be wet) – a crazy busy time too : /

“controversial images : media representations on the edge” edited by fiona attwood – contains a chapter on me written by adam stapleton – other wide-ranging chapters cover photoshopping, prophet mohammed cartoons, bulgarian transexuals, guantanamo bay, kurdish female suicide bombers, a mass murderer’s media manifesto, the british board of film classification, ichi the killer anime, max hardcore, torture porn, animal porn, screened rape, spankwire, call of duty modern warfare 2, and news images – a good read for sure – i’d have bought the book myself, if it wasn’t so hellishly expensive (even the kindle version is over $70!) – the essays are written almost exclusively by university professors and lecturers – so factually intensive and you always get a couple of pages of references – but despite being “academic” it’s very accessible

“moral crusades in an age of mistrust : the jimmy savile scandal” by frank furedi – the first “real” book out on the case – tho it’s more a sociological analysis of the surrounding moral panic – how words like victim and abuse have shifted meaning over the decades, the collapse of trust in authority establishments, crime trawling with people paid for unquestioned allegations (or victim compensation as they call it), the disallowance of skepticism, etc – not a book that’ll receive much love – i enjoyed it! – “savile: the beast (the inside story blahblah)” looks like the pulp paperback that’ll supply the desired sensationalism and requisite disgust – out now in the uk but another month or two wait for america (and thus me) – inevitably other assorted knock-out cash-in kindle books have appeared – the titles give the game away as to their worth: “the ghost of jimmy savile”. “now then : jimmy savile’s adventures in time”, “the folly of deference : what sir jimmy savile, irish paedophile priests, drunken doctors, and incompetent monarchs have all had in common” …and “arrest and trial of jimmy savile” which might be readable except the text is all formatted centered so it’s “unreadable”!

just been tempted by and bought rebecca ray’s “a certain age” (aka “pure”) – a coming of age “lolita” book (there appears to be a number of similar themed books about, by and for young females) – written by an 18 year old (16 when she started it!) – so it does sound authentically brit teenager – of course the appeal is that it’s possibly autobiographical – either way, far removed from melissa p, but i hope a fun read

tho currently reading maurice blanchot’s “aminadab” – which is a sorta allegorical kafka thru the looking glass

and thanks to adam stapleton, russell trainer’s “lolita complex” has now fallen into my possession finally – i must admit i wanted it more as a fetishistic/cult (?) object more than the desire to actually read it!

exhibition at parabolica-bis – part one: 02 may to 13 may – part two: may 31 to june 17 – ¥500 admission, not sure how much access that grants you to other ongoing exhibitions in the building but keiko miyata particularly worth seeing

pictured above is “candy floss” – she eats our badness – the more badness she eats the more her candy floss hair grows – (then we eat her hair?!)

related posts:
yaso : stuffed animals
toy box pix
trevor brown x hippie coco collaboration
hippiecoco nurse bear
victimisation complex baby art fan : addendum