• ::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:
  • Babies
  • If you look closely at the ceilings of pre-neoclassical buildings you will see large puffs and accumulations of putti; plump, awkward, strange and very common, these babies bring humor and frothiness to interiors. The popularity of these troupes and their stylization cannot be ignored and we are exploring their relevancy in ornate environments. We find their plump semi defined forms strange when compared to the sleek, hard and glossy developed forms within contemporary architectural discourse. When piled on top of each other babies often are absorbed into clouds creating writhing masses of particulate and bodies. We are interested in this combination as well as how various baby characteristics such as morphology, pudginess, coloration, wrinkling and undeveloped movement affect form and how this influences interiors. The following baby studies are related to our plush toy collection and succulent piñata, but originated in our Rumpus Room.