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Huw Messie

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WOUBI CHERI (1998) dir. LAURENT BOCAHUT, PHILLP BROOKS

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Derek Boshier (British, 1937), A ghost haunting a painting, 2010. Acrylic on paper, 22.5 x 18 cm.

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2008

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YOKO WATANABE “TETOTUTITO”

Tetotutito is a Japanese contemporary ceramics artist who creates pieces that tell herstories. Each work acts as a recorded message. Her daily emotions are transmittedand preserved in the clay.

“I feel the river around me. The water, like time, passes over me, and I am left alone inthe river. The flow is too fast for me. I feel uneasy, but I endure it. The water passing infront of me is the future, but before I know it, turns into the far away past.”

Her work is not all perfect, or beautiful, or lovely, but there is a melancholy in her artthat pulls at you. It compels you to come closer and hold it in your hands. There is ahint of sorrow that we all carry. The emotions and stories depicted here echo your own.That is her art.

Tetotutito lives in Kamakura along the Shonan coastline of Kanagawa prefecture.

※tetotutito means “Hand and Soil” in Japanese.

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Mose Tolliver (1918/20 - 2006, American artist) was born one of 12 children to sharecroppers Ike and Laney Tolliver in the Pike Road community, near Montgomery, Alabama. His exact year of birth is unknown, though it is known he was born on the Fourth of July as well as between the years 1920–25. He attended school only until the third grade due to a self-described lack of interest in education. In the 1930s, the family moved to Montgomery, Alabama where he helped support his parents and their large family by doing odd jobs.

In the early 1940s he married his childhood friend, Willie Mae Thomas, and had 13 children, 11 of whom survived to adulthood. During the late 1960s, while working at McLendon's furniture factory, he had a severe injury where his legs were crushed when a half-ton load of marble shifted and fell from a forklift as he was sweeping in the furniture factory. After this incident, he turned to painting to combat boredom, pain and long hours of idle time. Although many say that his career started after the accident, Tolliver claims he painted beforehand. He would often turn his paintings upside-down and paint the picture of perhaps an animal and landscape positioned from various directions. Tolliver's titles are wildly divergent; e.g., "Smoke Charlies," "Scopper Bugs," or "Jick Jack Suzy Satisfying her own Self".

On October 30, 2006, Tolliver died from pneumonia in Montgomery, Alabama.

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juuuuuusт gonna drop тhis old тhing for april fools because. yeah

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'but ghosts haunt the day, don't they?' embroidery on calico fabric, 2023

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Figwort sawfly (Tenthredo scrophulariae) larva in defensive posture. Keila, Northwestern Estonia

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wall art from silent hill 2

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'Bordered Lives: Transgender Portraits from Mexico' (2014) photos by Kike Arnal (x/x)

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Recent sculpture piece of mine, currently untitled - I will try to upload more of my work here in the future!

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views from the forum (July 2022)

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