Hideaki Otsuka – Octopus’ Dream ArtEZ Press Besides offering a closer look

Besides offering a closer look at his free work

is also included

but a source of great distress to the unsporty among us: the ball

This new book of photos and essays tells the stories behind The Mill’s creation

the photographs

Hideaki Otsuka – Octopus’ Dream ArtEZ Press Besides offering a closer lookHideaki Otsuka is a Tokyo based artist whose illustrations are humorous, and as he describes it, 'strange'. "I am doing work irrelevant to art every day. But that labour produces an unexpected effect. That's why my paintings are strange. I can not draw pictures by mere drawing a picture. The important thing for my pictures is the balance between thought and labour." 16 pages, 20 x 14 cm, softcover, Nieves (Zurich).