• ::The Bittertang Mind::
  • ::The Crop::
  • ::The Harvest::
  • ::Farmers Market::
  • ::Fellow Farmers::
  • ::Fertile Soils::
  • The Bittertang Mind
  • ::Michael Loverich::
  • Mikeylove loves the Rococo. The Rococo is indulgent to the pleasures and aesthetics of human sensation. It pleases our carnal desires as well as our need for witty, intellectual and humorous environments. The Rococo however fails to fulfill Baroque spatial and structural fantasies. This is where I intend to take it, to match the Baroque's spatial dynamism so that architecture is not just applique but is intensely pleasurable and erotic.
  • Mikeylove grew up within the thick, dense, moist, island forests of the Pacific Northwest. It is too a similar land that he intends to return. His ultimate goal is to return to island life and live in some secluded valley with views out over a warm sea. Here he will grow lush edible and fragrant vegetation as well as grotesque meldings of plant, mineral and mikeylove hewn forms. A small menagerie will be outback to keep him company and provide necessary nourishment during periods of low income. Fish will be harvested whenever needed from the turgid waters nearby and shellfish gathered nightly and roasted over hot stones.
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  • Please e-mail me with any questions you may have.
  • mikeylove@bittertang.com
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  • click here to view Michael's Resume
  • ::Antonio Torres::
  • Mikeylove's Bio
  • 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: