08 September 2019

komiyama bookstore



four old works of mine (mostly circa 1996) are on "permanent display" at the komiyama bookstore in jinbocho - exorbitant price tags and somewhat haphazardly laid out - i think it’s a rule of (the best) secondhand bookstores to disobey any rules of comprehensible order?! - they have a (semi-permanent?) mishima exhibition currently so maybe worthwhile checking out...?

21 August 2019

trevor brown x miho matsuda




three collaboration items being produced using illustrations from my "la nursery noire" book - available now for pre-order reservations - until 16 september - contact

harness skirt - (belt is detachable) - ¥30,000 +tax





one piece dress - ¥37,000 +tax - one size only? - sample items can be tried on at their harajuku laforet store





knee socks - two versions: small images or large single images - ¥3,500 +tax





01 August 2019

thumbnails

babyart inspired nails! - another rare post ...but i don't think anyone looks at my blog here nowadays?







kuua oyasume nails - by kukunail





mi.ouo - a copy of kuua's nails







pirorirorin.owo





nails by macarena.nail.artist 





a couple of older pix - i no longer remember who these fix-me-doll nails belong to

i hate the vinyl toy scene



looks familiar? - edition of 10, sold out - made by awesome toys - they said they "may" have been influenced by me and offered to give me a pair (sorry if i show no enthusiasm to accept the offer - they look more like poo than "awesome" to me)





27 July 2019

mitake



mitake! - a somewhat gratuitous post : ) ...she needs to improve her cosplay skills a little?!



13 May 2019

la nursery noire exhibition



as with publishing my own book, the exhibition was also independently staged by myself - gallery le deco floor 6 was rented for six days - sadly the desired black painted gallery (i previously used for miss sticky kiss and rubber doll exhibitions) is no longer black - but the newly renovated sparklingly clean white space is relatively large and customizable to some extent with moveable wall blocks - the gallery owner also fondly(?) remembered me from 12 years ago, so that was kinda nice - his similarly amiable son now running the galleries

and happily the exhibition was very successful - numerous paintings sold (around two dozen of the 41 works on show) - and around 600 visitors attended, despite some lousy "golden week" weather  - there was never a single moment when the gallery was empty - which eased the burden of being in the gallery all day every day - it was very tiring of course, and i caught a cold, but nevertheless it was fun and we want to do it all again! - (actually, as the gallery empty the following week, we were offered a free week extension! - we couldn't do it tho)



day by day, one by one, the post cards at the gallery door were mysteriously disappearing! - (perhaps just fell off?)



copies of "la nursery noire" (limited to 500 copies) sold out within a few days - ditto all the enamel pins that were for sale - so, seeing all the sad faces, i deeply regret not keeping aside more copies of the book for the exhibition - especially as overseas response (america in particular) has been pretty much non-existant in regard to painting enquiries - zero interest!





for the last day i made some extra consolation badges - but seems everyone sulking on missing out on the enamel pins too much



admission was free - so amusing to be approached by a russian(?) mum and her daughter nervously asking "ticket???"

and photos permitted - if not encouraged! - the power of sns, particularly for japanese, can't be underestimated - tho apparently many japanese read the tick mark as "no"! - and the "thank you" praying hands as "sorry"! - huh? - photos of ME not permitted - i got variously described as a fairy or a white wizard : P

my/our graciousness was somewhat tested however when a chinese(?) girl systematically took dozens of hi-res photos of every painting - i thought the reflective glass frames of some paintings might deter her - it didn't - and, as if divine intervention, the above "photo okay" sign became unstuck from the wall and fell down during her photo blitz - when she was about to start indexing my files of preliminary pencil drawings we stepped in and stopped her - at least she did buy books! (and she was quite a nice girl really - perhaps an art student?)

even more concerning were the fat men - the first very casually attired and, barely glancing at the paintings, he copied the price tags into a note book - on a later day another arrived in a business suit (starkly standing out amid the predominant lolita visitors) - hmmm, taxmen?!

another disconcerting thing - what's the deal with black nail varnish? - among men! - quite a few were sporting this "look" - i was tempted to follow suit just to see if it's like some sorta secret handshakes thing...?



akaneko, my number one fan, suitably attired - shironuri artist minori also came attired in latex (i didn't recognize her!)



nananano and aika(?)



mitake - so cute! - apparently she knew of my work but wasn't an especial fan before - but "fell in love" when seeing the originals - or at least moved enough to buy one - happy things like this made all the hard work worthwhile - if i did the exhibition at a "real" gallery, this probably wouldn't happen, thanks to more intimidating price tags - yay for artist autonomy!

random girl collecting follows...



ayumi and kyokobarbie - two outgoing girls who prey on shy boys like me (haha!)



megu okada and kaori nagamatsu



miyako and strawberry painkiller (obviously not her real name but this is how i know her)

 

p___q111 and oo.u_g.oo - tb girls come and go fast - but the former here so immediately identifiable as a big fan (the madaraningen oversized t-shirt a bit of a giveaway) - she circled the gallery forever - perhaps trying to build up courage to say "hello"? - but she tweeted that she was too nervous - maybe next time...?



cellar_door13 and maid roizu



lim and ___123cm - girls standing next to paintings that they partly resemble

24 February 2019

genitalia replacement



the new self-published trevor brown book, "la nursery noire", is now back from the printers! - but not without problems - the japanese printer refused to print 5 pages without censorship - the matter of contention being very tiny penises and one girlie slit (nothing more than a mere pencil line) - hard core "adult material"? - quite ludicrous - they wouldn’t even allow mosaic censorship because the penis shape could still be imagined?! - ...do we presume now all nude cherub images are prohibited?



altho very unhappy and angry about this printer dictatorship (their name isn’t even on the book - i credit myself as the publisher), i went ahead and blanked out with white circles the offending genitalia - i had little choice - it’s especially stupid as various other penises in the book they didn’t demand to be defaced - apparently okayed because they weren’t emanating from the groin area..?



from back cover - quoting an instagram comment from angelscream666 - and only vaguely realising how prophetic this'd be



so, if the printers are going to make a fool of me, i am going to make a fool of them - and regain some lost integrity - every copy of the book will now contain an envelope with a set of computer-printed stickers of the censored areas for you to replace - subversive fun! - first trevor brown sticker book, age 18+



please return our penises



yay!

ps: i'll start selling the book very shortly!