• Cover of the book Bright Lights and Cats with No Mouths by John Balance, illustrated with abstract eye-filled faces.
  • Close-up of a black page with white text in English, showing Val Denham’s reflective statement about John Balance.
  • Double-page spread with two surreal drawings: a golden anthropomorphic figure and a red-blue hand rising from stacked pots.
  • Left: a multicolored face with bulging eyes and crooked teeth. Right: a distorted humanoid figure blending into a dreamlike landscape.
  • Left: ink drawing of a chicken, phallus, and human forms. Right: a fetus in a colored oval.
  • Left: a red text drawing with black crossed-out words. Right: a black-and-white grotesque humanoid figure.
  • Left: a deity-like figure with outstretched arms and bright colors. Right: an abstract composition of geometric, fiery shapes.
  • Two crayon-style portraits: one with a red background and totem-like form, the other reading “He sleeps in blood.”
  • Chaotic surreal forms in red, blue, and yellow.
  • Left: floating pink biomorphic figure signed “ectoplasm.” Right: swirling black strands radiating from a black circle.
  • Two abstract expressionist paintings with red, blue, and yellow paint blots on light and dark backgrounds.
  • Back cover with biographical text and black-and-white photo of John Balance.
  • Close-up of book spine showing the title Bright Lights and Cats with No Mouths
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Timeless Edition

Bright Lights and Cats with No Mouths

Bright Lights and Cats with No Mouths – John Balance

John Balance
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A rare extended edition collecting the visionary and unsettling drawings of Coil’s John Balance – poetic, grotesque, and deeply personal.

Hardcover, 23.0 x 23.0 cm, 1.4 kg , 300 pages
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About the Book

Bright Lights and Cats with No Mouths presents the extraordinary graphic work of John Balance, co-founder of the legendary experimental group Coil. This extended edition gathers 300 pages of his raw, hallucinatory drawings – intimate, ritualistic, and often disturbing explorations of gender, death, dreams, and magic. With contributions by Val Denham and Jeremy Reed, the volume offers a glimpse into the inner life of an artist who reshaped the underground with both his sound and his imagery. This hardcover edition is published by Timeless and comes in limited circulation.

Includes:

  • Full-page reproductions of Balance’s original works
  • Printed on high-quality paper, bound in illustrated hard cover
  • With texts by Val Denham and Jeremy Reed
  • Rare, collector’s item

Hardcover, 23.0 x 23.0 cm, 1.4 kg, 300 pages, English
ISBN: 9791096037155

About the Author

John Balance (Geoffrey Laurence Burton, 1962–2004) was a pioneering British musician and artist, best known as a founding member of Coil. His visual work, like his sound explorations, is rooted in the esoteric, the erotic, and the surreal. Alongside Peter Christopherson, he created some of the most influential post-industrial music of the late 20th century. This book collects much of his previously unseen artwork for the first time.

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Publisher / Manufacturer: Timeless Edition
Country of origin: France
Website: https://www.timeless-shop.com

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