Creative processes
"If it is absolutely necessary for art or theater to serve any purpose, it will be to teach people that there are activities that are useless and that it is essential that they exist."
-Eugène Ionesco
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String of Days
This is a song about a herald driving a team of donkeys through the snow to spread the news that there’s been a sign of good things to come. I’ve always loved positive messages and donkeys too…
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Prolong the Joy
I was just trying to express what I felt on that particular day. I found a suitable image and then experimented with different manipulations on it. At the end I came up with the title…
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Out for a Walk
This piece was inspired by an early morning walk to a place that used to be a major hub for boat travel between Kingston and New York City. The docks no longer remain, but the sculpted landscape still holds a bit of that story…
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Olli Rapold
In the past couple years I’ve been adding “chance operations” to my work. In this case, the colors were chosen by rolling dice…
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Running On Fumes
Finishing is always the hardest part for me, knowing when to stop, how to hold back from overworking. Because the process is really why I paint, I could easily paint 100 paintings on the same canvas. I usually have about 6-10 large paintings on the go at one time to make sure I don’t do…
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The way we were
Several days earlier l had been looking through a book of Jean-Michel Basquiat drawings and paintings. This combined with life experience of a broken heart from romantic love…
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Worlds that resonate with distant planets
I used to hate making compositions by hand and just ended up frustrated by not achieving the results that I was looking for…
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Living With Myself
When it came time to record, I still wasn’t sure about it but then Dylan brought the magic in his drumming, Emma added some great vocals and Nathalie changed the whole vibe of the choruses with her bass…
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Not yet time for breakfast
I don’t really have a method for taking photos. I just take photos of whatever seems beautiful to me. It can be a person in the street, a flower or a diner…
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I stole it (I hope he doesn’t mind)
I don’t use this type of images very often, but I thought I could make this one into something interesting. So, I created this very minimal landscape that, in a way, still has a bit of realism…
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Asleep On The Sidewalk
I remember I was listening to a lot of Big Thief at the time and I love the simplicity of a one note solo which they do a lot. So, at the end of the song the lead guitar just hits the one note, which I felt gave more feeling, instead of a flashy solo…
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Ira Karpusheva
Photography is always a collaboration, if you shoot someone you need to be on the same wavelength and understand what is happening in each process. This photo, it seems to me, is an example of the fact that Ira and I understood each other…
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Air Traffic
I was staying in a beautiful design hotel which showcased a lot of historic black and white images of the village during the 50’s and 60’s. Walking around those halls definitely inspired me to create this photo with analog...



















