• ::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:
  • The Pleasurable
  • The orgasmic baroque feast was an event designed and constructed to enhance and encourage pleasure. Elaborate sugar sculptures and food compositions were displayed for visual as well as taste sensations. This emphasis on the banquet loses formality as an event becoming daily life in the mid 18th century. No longer limited to carnal pleasures and temporary exhibitions, designs for both senses and intellect are applied to the rococo interior. We see the development of the hilarious as a 6th sense to be part of this transition. Encrustations in the form of putti and babies while aiding frothiness were utilized towards
    humorous ends often lightening the mood of previous compositions. Interior space isn’t the space of serious religion or as it is in contemporary life, serious living/recreation but a space of carnal and intellectual drama.