• ::The Bittertang Mind::
  • ::The Crop::
  • ::The Harvest::
  • ::Farmers Market::
  • ::Fellow Farmers::
  • ::Fertile Soils::
  • The Bittertang Mind
  • ::Michael Loverich::
  • ::Antonio Torres::
  • Bittertang is a small design farm run by Antonio Torres and Michael Loverich who strive to bring happiness and pleasure into the built world by referencing that pleasurable world which surrounds us. Our work explores multiple themes including pleasure, frothiness, biological matter, animal posturing, babies, sculpture and coloration all unified through bel composto. Our explorations are based in digital and visceral matter with output transitioning between scales and localities leaving our traces of frothy matter in various disciplines. Although trained as architects our prolific interests and methodology associates us closely to the organization of a farm. Bittertang material is breed, coaxed and grown to yield tasty morsels, beautiful new exotic beasts and fertilizer for future growth. Digging deep into the fertile detritus left by thousands of years of human history and artifacts our goal is to add thick rich fodder to contemporary material culture. Welcome to the farm, explore at your own risk and please, pet the animals.
  • :Biological Matter:
  • :Belcomposto:
  • :Frothy Seams:
  • :The Pleasurable:
  • :Animal Posturing:
  • :Coloration:
  • :Sculpture:
  • :Babies:
  • Animal Posturing:
  • We lust for beast-like qualities in inanimate beings.  The logic of the beast defies the logic of the architectural.  With the discovery of the new world and its constant source of exotic species the animal silhouette was fetishized and incorporated into the domestic environment.  Representations of these species in painted form wasn't enough to satiate, objects began to be transformed into exotic headless beasts themselves interiorizing and domesticating the menagerie. Objects as much as the proliferation of miniaturized dogs and pets took on lives of their own. Preferences and taste in animal husbandry and domestication where shared with cabinetmakers. Furniture and other manufactured objects were seen as fecund beings that evolved and grew through successful breeding. Personality, utility and novelty were paramount in maintaining and studding offspring.