Following last week’s post, more botanic beauty…

Artist Anthea Bush imagined how the vegetables and fruits we find nicely packed on our supermarket shelves actually grow, and created a series of beautifully drawn botanical drawings, each drawing combining real vegetables and fruits with imaginary plants.
A playful investigation of the disconnection felt towards nature in western society.

Invitations to Yours Truly parties with DJ The Flexican and MC SEF.
It is so trashy, that it is good…
and their music fits their image perfectly, what more could you ask for?

I bought this ‘get well – nurse in an envelope’ card years ago at a small art fair, thinking it could be something nice to send to a sick friend. Fortunately, I never had to use it… but I would like to share it here so you can mail this post to someone sick who is dear to you, and perhaps get a smile on his or her face…

p.s. I don’t know who the artist/ designer responsible for this sweet card, if anyone does I would love to credit him/ her.

Years ago, way back in 1998 when I just moved to Amsterdam, I used to receive post for the previous tenants who seemed to know everyone there was to know in the local art scene (or so it seemed to us newcomers). Among others, they received invitations for events in HEDAH, a centre for contemporary art in Maastricht.
I collected them at the time, and just found them again recently. These invitations are so weird, and kind of freaky, but they somehow work. I wonder how the designer pitched it to the client though… futuristic men, a baby and a toddler.

HEDAH’s current website, by the way, is beyond boring. I guess whoever commissioned those invitations would have never approve them today…

The invitations do not credit the designer, and I couldn’t find any other information about it (obviously they were distributed at an ancient time when internet was hardly in use), but if anyone out there knows the name of the person who created these images, I would love to set history straight and credit him/ her here…