• ::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:
  • Belcomposto
  • Older than the Rococo, belcomposto is the unification of multiple artistic and material endeavors to produce alternative and pleasurable environments within the built environment.  The Rococo took belcomposto to the edge melding painting, sculpture, furniture, architecture, fashion and human beings.  Our explorations insert landscape, plants, and animals into the mix.  An example of Rococo belcomposto would be the trompe l’oeil, which is seen as a wet painting that oozes its painted material onto bas-relief cartouches and sculpted statuary, accumulating into frothy masses at any hard seam.