Last year my daughter, Kantra forced me to pick up my crown. For many nights, on my knees, helping my four-year-old get dressed for bed, at eye level she’d tell me, “I’m a Princess. Mommie is Mommie Queeen and you’re Daddy King.” We could be in a grocery store aisle and out of her pocket she pulls rocks, rose pedals, acorns, and handfuls of sand. She got a bike for Christmas and a remote control car. In the last few …
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The importance of Ikeda Manabu’s work can’t be overstated or more timely. This is anti-automation. It’s what you get when you take away the screen, look at the world and just draw it. He worked 10 hours a day for three and a half years to produce his latest piece, “Rebirth.” It’s a 13 x 10 foot painting within a painting that’s within a painting. The narratives that weave throughout it are like strings of tangled sentences. “Rebirth” is Manabu’s …
My interview with Japanese artist Ikeda Manabu is in the newest print issue of Hi-Fructose, Vol. 29. According to their site, “this issue features a beautiful cover by the amazing Eric Fortune and a very special 16 page Sketchbook insert byFemke Hiemstra, featuring beautiful reproductions of her graphite work. This issue also includes an extensive feature on instilation/street artist Olek, the hyper detailed works ofIkeda Manubu, new paintings from Jennybird Alcantara, Japanese artist Hikari Shimoda, painter Kehinde Wiley, the book sculptures of Georgia Russell, the ink …
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