“The bored man is an ideas man. The daydreamers shall inherit the Earth.” – Sean Lotman
“I had no idea how big Earth was before I came here.” – Tennbo Lotman
In the confines of COVID lockdown, Sean Lotman and Tennbo Lotman began collaboration on Puking Rainbows Past and Future, a pocket-sized photo book of aphorisms and imagery between an artist father looking back on his life and a young artist son who is taking the first steps along his creative path.
Tennbo received a Fuji Instax camera from Sean in Christmas 2020, and with his “inherent eye for framing,” and wry wisdom beyond his years, he began experimenting with double exposures, harnessing the magic of instant film. Sean, at the time, was writing prose poems about his life experiences, and Tennbo followed suit with what Sean describes as his “own stream-of-consciousness spoken word” – the two generations in dialogue through image and text. The project’s title comes from “Tennbo,” Sean says, “his words penned on the cover of one of his first sketch books,” during a time where every day was filled with image making between the two of them. What emerges is a testament to how not only do children learn from their parents, but parents learn from their children, too.