{"product_id":"9781603092319","title":"Welcome to Forest Island","description":"\"Bwana Spoons' art puts me in the mind of secure expansion, perfect days sculpting in seaweed and driftwood, forgetting about clocks, and unknowingly impressing your best friend.\" -- J. Otto Seibold, illustrator of Olive, the Other Reindeer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTop Shelf presents Welcome to Forest Island, the flagship monograph by Bwana Spoons, a painter, designer, screenprinter, zine rocker, and toymaker whose work has been featured on a dizzying array of shoes, skateboards, apparel, baby strollers, art toys, and gallery walls throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll 144 full-color pages - including paintings, maps, sketches, comics, and more - are dedicated to Forest Island: the wild, hyperchromatic paradise Spoons has been constructing with his art for several years. The denizens of this mind-bending island include sweet whale-gators, boozy super-cicadas, arrow-slinging, basket-weaving bearded love tribes, an ex-hobo mushroom farmer, and one brutally intense bat who plays drums in a proto-metal band and would do just about anything to make a bagel relinquish its jelly filling!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRendered in swaths of psychedelic fluorescents in a flurry of wild yet delicate brushwork, the explosive pages of Welcome to Forest Island establish Bwana Spoons as the cuddliest art-monster around, whose furious imagination is matched only by the intimacy of his handskills.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe thoughtful and provocative design, by Tokyo wunderkind Ian Lynam, elevates Spoons' opus beyond a \"mere\" collection of jaw-dropping artwork to a true coffee table gem. Cloth-spined and case-bound, this full-color compendium heralds not only the birth of a wild and woolly nation, but also the arrival of a major new force in the art world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith an introduction by Tim Biskup.","brand":"Idea \u0026 Design Works, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47166809735408,"sku":"9781603092319","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781603092319_p0.jpg?v=1763815271","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781603092319","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}