This self-published collection of Rajah Foo’s art covers roughly the period from 2010 to 2020, documenting the development of the artist’s imagination in more than forty new artworks. The introduction is by Foo’s friend and promoter Stefan Prince, and opens with a quotation from Charles Baudelaire: ‘The natural world is a spiritual house. Man walks there through forests of physical things that are also spiritual things, that watch him with affectionate looks.’

The introduction continues:

In the world created by artist Rajah Foo physical things that are also spiritual things watch us mostly with curiosity and intent. The intent can be somewhat sinister by design. His is a world of transformation, transmutation, and metamorphoses. You must watch your back. Anything can happen in Rajah’s universe, and invariably does. A tree will become a half-man, a man’s body will become half-animal, or part-swan.
     From what dark wood do these half-human males emanate? Their sexual organs are firm, often erect. Their sexuality fierce and predatory. And yet sometimes they have a princely grace, often reflected in the fact that their heads form pointed crowns. Sometimes their heads are nowhere a head should be but protrude at stomach level as if the creature were just head and loins, thrusting and hungry loins that seek union.
     The solitary female adventurer makes her way through woodlands and open ground, to room interiors and onto sofas or tabletops, where she opens herself to the hunger of multiple lovers. Sometimes these bizarre strangers are replaced by sexually curious adolescents. Sometimes the furniture itself manifests a sexual hunger.
     Rajah Foo constantly surprises us. Heads dissolve into tree trunks, a man’s feet become claw-like hands, a chair takes on life, legs are hairy and may take root, eyes are catlike, and there is an air of otherworldliness and secrecy. These transforming and sexually rampant manifestations occasionally look startled, caught in the act of fornication, fellation, caught with trousers down or with whip in hand. Long may he bring his wonderful manifestations to the drawn and painted page.

The Fabulous Art of Rajah Foo is available from Blurb – the link is here.