Was very happy to get this done – even more happy to see it built up as a real bicycle. It’s now back with it’s rightful keeper in Christchurch NZ. It may have even been ridden once or twice! Here are some photos, first with some white Fredz bars (the right bars for this bike, but not the right colour) and then with some S&M 7.5in rise Slams.
My first solo exhibition exhibited itself at The Incubator gallery in Tauranga NZ in December 2020. Was quite a trip! And a good way to see out a year that presented a challenge or two for quite a few people. I respectfully invite you to feast yer peepers:
“Anata ga motte iru koto, tomodachi.”. Largest piece I’ve done to date at 91x123cm. Available for $2500NZ. free shipping to most NZ and Australian addresses. Further afield? I’m sure we could work something out…
What’s a couple of days between friends? Not much at all! Kachimasu Ichi & Ni, the first two of a set of five. San is under way, Yon & Go will be done after I’ve finished a couple of other things – which I’ll show right here on this very blog quite soon (you may have noticed that committing to precise times isn’t really my forte.).
This series should be in a solo exhibition (my first!) in November. Provided Covid hasn’t screwed even more up by then. But I’ll try to stay positive. Even if an amply proportioned woman did cough rice all over the table and floor at my wife’s place of work today.
I’ve suggested that she wear something like this when she goes in tomorrow.
It’s been some time since I last posted, but totemo isogashi desu.
Firstly, I finished 男、その8ビットの弾丸が私の一日を作った、ビル。, which is this one:
Also finished “Kanojo mo, ‘misutãsupãkuru’ no chōsen o ukeireru koto o eranda.”
and “Bishōjo sěrãmûn wa itsumo watashi no senaka o motte ita…”
Then painted a skateboard deck for the Show Us Your Deck exhibition at the Incubator gallery in Tauranga, New Zealand.
Then 3 12×12 pieces (“Hitori de iru koto ga nani o imi suru no ka watashitachi wa shitte imasu” 1, 2 & 3.) for the 111 exhibition at the same gallery:
Then made some postcards!
If you’d like one of those, get in touch via my fb page https://www.facebook.com/misutasupakuru/ .
Other than that, Merry Xmas and have a kickass New year!
Via my Google to facebook and back translating method it ends up being “She put flowers on her kimono”, which is ok, but I might need to try another method in future. Or name the next few from Homer Simpson quotes. Or Genbaku Onanies lyrics. Good to get it finished and it’s off to it’s new home. And I had some postcards made! PM me if you’d like one.
As the title is a rough translation of, it’s “un named as yet”, which it might continue to be, or I might let Mr fb translatotron do it’s magic. This is acrylic on a hardboard panel – have almost finished the next one on a hardboard panel too. Although I think I prefer canvas. Probably.
As of this piece, my new naming convention will be to come up with a vaguely appropriate title, Google translate it in Japanese, then post it on my facebook page @misutasupakuru, then use the fb translate function to finalise the English moniker. In this case: “Bruce worked hard for her kimono and wig.”
It’s an older one (almost a year even), but I stumbled across the photo today and figured that it needed to come out of the shadows…
If I had more time available, maybe it wouldn’t take me 7 months to complete a painting… Still! On to the next one!
kirameki san experiences sustained loss of traction 