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Four stickers set upon a cyanotype background! These colorful, funky designs are all my brain children. The four stickers are: a neon yellow background with black ink picnic setting; a rainbow orca leaping from the ocean; three nested plaintains (green, yellow, and brown); and an Amanita muscaria mushroom set against a watercolor green background.
Select work of mine is now available on Faire Wholesale! Including these charming stickers. 🌈🍽️🐋
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#DomesticPsychedelia
#Stationery
#IndieArtist
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A person with long brown hair lies on the ground, gazing upward with a playful expression. Resting in their hair is the tarot card Le Diable (The Devil) from the Marseille deck, showing a horned figure with two smaller chained figures. The person wears red lipstick and a gold septum ring.
A cream-colored background with a decorative golden flourish at the top and a black-and-gold logo at the bottom. Centered text reads: “I think The Devil gets a bum rap because of its sinister iconography, and its association with the ‘unhealthy’: vices and addictions, shadowy secrets, the taboo, and even ways of thinking that no longer serve us. One might feel beholden to, or even enslaved by, unhealthy attachments and base instincts. However, the chains are not unbreakable: The Devil reminds me that liberation is within arm’s reach.” –Lari Burgos
Meet @larisanjou.bsky.social, a multidisciplinary artist based in Anjou, France. A daughter of the Puerto Rican diaspora, her work explores histories through a vibrant visual language that she calls Domestic Psychedelia. For The Rebis, she created a beautiful linoprint illustration of The Devil.
"Cluck Cluck" I + II
Teeny-tiny chickens made especially for these small frames. Painted from photos I took on a sejour into the French countryside.
Each measures 3.5cm x 4.5cm, the smallest pieces I have done yet!
#Watercolor
#MixedMedia
#TinyArt
#FoodIllustrator
"Drippy Spoon" Original ink painting, on display at a local shop, my first solo expo✨️
#indieartist
#foodart
#foodillustration
#supportlocalbusiness
Linoprints, Featuring: Jamóna, Birthday Eel, and others. Original designs by me! These are #mini #linoprint designs on colored paper.
✨️Find this collection of cute, silly prints (and more) in my webstore✨️
#jamon
#jambon
#linogravure
#foodillustration
#foodart
#foodillustrator
"The Moon" (2024)
One of my favorite pieces I've done: #linoprint of a lobster embarking on the path of life. Return to primordial waters is inevitable.
#tarot
#themoon
#lobster
#linogravure
#art
Oysterbaby is an exuberant, splattery top-down view of an open oyster on its halfshell with a pearl nestled inside. It's a mix of yellow, magenta and blue inks that combine to make a humble creature glow.
"Oysterbaby" One of my all-time favorite illustrations, I did this in just three colors of ink: blue, yellow and magenta.
I never ate a raw oyster before I came to France. It's an acquired taste, but paired with a bit of lemon, a piece of lavishly buttered bread, and a crisp glass of white wine...
A luscious beet in watercolor!
My newest veggie watercolor "Solo beat"
Featured in my illustrated newsletter: I wrote about pesticides and beets in France.
#FoodIllustration
#FoodIllustrator
#Watercolor
RENDERED, my #IllustratedFoodHistory newsletter is back this month with another #artzine style post about the #LoiDuplomb + pesticides in France.
Written, researched, illustrated, designed by me! Here's a peek at the 16-page #zine:
#FoodWriting #FoodIllustration
#00sCore
Announcing: my acceptance to an international academic colloquium! This October, I'll be presenting about #PuertoRican diasporic foodways.
I've never done such a thing, so I'll be sharing about the preparation process on my newsletter as bonus content for paid subs.
#FoodHistory
#ArtistsWhoWrite
A beautiful array of bookbinding tools: metal rulers, waxed threads, needles of varying thicknesses and curves, glue and brush, awl, cutter, number 2 pencil, and bone folder.
#Bookbinding tools laid out, ready to put into action.
I taught myself bookbinding because I wasn't happy with any #artist sketchbooks I found in stores at my desired price point. For me, it's better to buy the raw materials and make my own notebooks!
Tutorial coming soon to my website :)
🌈🍱🍷Throwback to my first (and thus far, only) attempt at stop-motion animation. A cute dancing picnic scene! Enjoy.
#StopMotion
#FoodIllustrator
Lari is holding a 30cm² linoprint of her original design, "The Moon." In this square composition in solid black ink on white paper, a lobster claws its way from choppy waves onto a stretch of land that is lined on one side with grapes, shells, and a mapleleaf; and lined on the other with hollyhocks being pollinated by a bumblebee, and a proud starfish that's been hit with a wave. The lobster's path leads far into the horizon. A filigreed moon and two stars light the way, set against a black night sky. In the distance, the path leads back to the ocean. It's meant to represent the journey along the path of life, that we shall return to the primordial waters of life from whence we came.
THE MOON (Linoprint, 2024, 30cm²)
Limited edition prints available JULY 22, when my webshop reopens!
This is my interpretation of the #tarot card, my depiction of the path of life. And how we are meant to return to the primordial waters from whence we came.
#Linoprint
#LeoSeason
"It's a doggy dog world"
Yowza... this is Lari's first attempt at paint pouring. Using a blend of neon yellow, hot pink, and fluorecent blue acrylic inks, they have been poured and have naturally mixed into hues of purples, oranges, and green over top of two attempts. At the top is a small (3-inch square) canvas--the blended swirling inks are semi-translucent yet still vibrant, set off from the white canvas. At the bottom is a larger psychedelic-inspired piece already in progress. A majority pink/purple swirled puddle of ink dances on top of a firmbacked board that has been painted in blocks of neon colors, collaged thin papers that were previously watermarbled, and various grid-shaped marks in a variety of bright colors. This bottom piece is an ongoing pastiche of techniques, arranged in an attempt to evoke the kind of static that came over a TV screen when you'd try to access a channel you didn't pay for (back in the days of cable TV).
My first attempts at paint marbling. On top, a simple canvas. At the bottom, an ongoing piece I've been adding to gradually for many months. I'm trying to replicate zany + colorful TV static. There are already many layers of watermarbled paper and handpainted patterns, + more will come. #artprocess
Yahoo! This is one of Lari's newest textile art pieces, in her style of "Domestic Psychedelia:" the background is an explosion of color and neon tie-dye, with linoprint images radiating outward from the center in black. A baby-blue textile square has been tie-dyed; from the center toward the 4 corners, there is a rainbow of hot pink, fluorescent red, acid orange, eye-piercing yellow, lime green, bright blue, and deep turquoise, returning to hot pink at the very edges. Radiating outward from the center are a series of black-ink linoprints, alternating between "Garlicflower" (a head of garlic sitting upon a sunflower), and "Garlicbaby" (a half-dressed singular clove of garlic). The alternating linoprints form a patterned diamond shape within the psychedelic background of the piece. It's a party for the eyes, an explosion of color, meant to be a joyous, exuberant representation of the flavor of garlic, an ode to its deliciousness and versatility.
"All I See is Garlic" (2025, Linoprint and tie-dye on tea towel)
I created this textile art piece as an exuberant, joyful representation of my love of garlic, and how central it is to my cooking. This is a deliciously hypnotic celebration of garlic, in a style I call #DomesticPsychedelia. Enjoy!
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