Wednesday 17 June 2009

kozyndan

kozyndan are a husband-and-wife team, based in LA, who met on a painting course. Kozyndan is their joint pseudonym. I first came across their prints in the V&A museum shop and just had to get them:
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Rabbits have become their hallmark - mainly because they had rabbits at home and they became their only life models. This is certainly apparent in the images above; if you look closely you'll see the waves, blossoms and leaves etc are all made up of hundreds of bunnies! There are also nod's to Kozy's native country, Japan, with the use of Japanese parchment textures and the references to Hokusai. Their witty urban landscapes are amazingly detailed.
"We love the human energy of a city and the hustle and bustle. So we're bringing animals into that and fusing two loves - the natural world in opposition to the technological world"
- Dan Kitchen, kozyndan.

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