Failed Painter: Or Unchained by Material Anxiety Product Type / Flash Cards and so too are craftspeople

and so too are craftspeople – workers in metal and wood

and to learn more about our planet

By placing children at the heart of the natural world

Frog and Kookaburra

through 100 works by over 40 contemporary Japanese artists

Failed Painter: Or Unchained by Material Anxiety Product Type / Flash Cards and so too are craftspeopleA personal book about material anxiety in creative work, The Failed Painter discusses singular and multiple production processes, perfectibility and imperfectability in times of virtual surface, and hunger for authenticity. Writing in the persona of the titular "failed painter," Ian Lynam, author of The Impossibility of Silence: Writing for Designers, Artists & Photographers (2021), directly addresses design practitioners by calling them to