Hideaki Otsuka – Octopus’ Dream ArtEZ Press on borders

on borders

Jarrod Rawlins

is also included

The initial impetus for this series sparked from a broken toy gun that Prudence Murphy found kicking around her home

Besides offering a closer look at his free work

Hideaki Otsuka – Octopus’ Dream ArtEZ Press on bordersHideaki Otsuka is a Tokyo based artist whose illustrations are humorous, and as he describes it, 'strange'. "I am doing work irrelevant to art every day. But that labour produces an unexpected effect. That's why my paintings are strange. I can not draw pictures by mere drawing a picture. The important thing for my pictures is the balance between thought and labour." 16 pages, 20 x 14 cm, softcover, Nieves (Zurich).