The idea is to create one collaborative piece of work. The input from spectators will be collected at several stages of conception of a painting via this website and your comments.

First step:
The public – you – provides input for a painting, under any form: a picture, a song, a name, a word, a story, a concept, a colour…

Second step:
Tany will use this input to start working on a painting. At an early stage (painting started but incomplete) the draft will submitted for review by the public.

Third Step:
The public will comment and provide additional suggestions and ideas.

Fourth Step:
Tany will finalize the painting.

This is the first step. Please provide your suggestions by commenting this post.

Input already gathered: Japanese kanji for “silent execution” ; irony ; cycle within the painting.

The interpretation of the composition is up to you.

In the background, on a white board is written:

Life is a Sexually Transmitted disease.

A Scientist is holding a condom in his right hand. His head is printed on a copy of the FT. In front of him, cut out from FT headlines, is pined down the sentence:

Underneath the “End” word taken from the original print is written “human rights”.

 Tany recently finished an exercise based on a picture of M. Heaney and him on his scooter in North London. The exercise was to paint in less than an hour a portrait of his friend. In the background are written with a black pencil variations of the riddle:

See a penny pick it up,
All day long have good luck.
If you give it to a Friend,
Then your luck will never end.

Tany also experimented paint droppings and “coulures”, and used the DejaVu symbol of the Japanese marine’s flag.

Following a request from his father to refurbish his bathroom, Tany has been studying the Art in Hen. Here are three studies of hen, the animal remains the same in each painting, but the frame around it varies. You will recognise Alechinsky’s influence here.