Hideaki Otsuka – Octopus’ Dream ArtEZ Press Published by Bedford Press (London)

Published by Bedford Press (London)

but a source of great distress to the unsporty among us: the ball

Jarrod Rawlins

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

a kitchen sink

Hideaki Otsuka – Octopus’ Dream ArtEZ Press Published by Bedford Press (London)Hideaki 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).