Interviews

"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

  • Reality

    Reality

    When I “finish” the piece I always wait and take a look at it again and again to make sure everything is well balanced…

  • Nostalgic for the Simple Days

    Nostalgic for the Simple Days

    I feel like I captured the feeling of summer really well. When the viewer looks at the photo, I hope they can imagine themselves there or are reminded of a similar memory…

  • Untitled

    Untitled

    I love process of collecting things, whether that be objects or images and sorting through ideas through image making…

  • Vices

    Vices

    As an artist, I always want to outdo myself and create something more interesting and visceral than the last thing I made…

  • Fortune cookie

    Fortune cookie

    The hardest thing with this photo was the aspect of timing and reaction. There was this 1/125 of a second when everything had to be on point, we tried many, many times…

  • Madame de Pompadour

    Madame de Pompadour

    Working in impasto technique is immensely satisfying. It is something between painting and sculpture, I enjoyed the playfulness of the process…

  • Sublime Wilderness

    Sublime Wilderness

    My background as an artist is also in philosophy, so I’m always considering the ways that all materiality is connected and I try to explore this in my work…

  • I forgot to be profound today

    I forgot to be profound today

    I was tired, in a good way, and that’s what this song is about, so the energy in the room was just so peaceful and heartbreaking and captured the mood perfectly…

  • Footpath cracked and a weed grew

    Footpath cracked and a weed grew

    I was free from the usual life concerns for the duration and my mind felt lucid. The piece arrived smoothly with an unforced appearance…

  • Run Forever

    Run Forever

    It’s a challenge to be okay with creating minimalist art because in a way, it feels effortless…

  • our eyes

    our eyes

    Any process or gambit that gets you working is as good as any other…

  • detach

    detach

    My own personal trauma has definitely been a source of inspiration for me and through creating work I feel able to process my relationship with sex…

  • View from the Smokies

    View from the Smokies

    I love the moment when the landscape finally comes together after hours of looking and searching. It feels like magic to see photographs link together…

  • String of Days

    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…

  • Prolong the Joy

    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…

  • Kne

    Kne

    Actually, my authentic graphic design has been built up when I was in New York at collage so, I’ve taken using English on my work for granted…

  • Out for a Walk

    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…

  • Colour, n

    Colour, n

    It is impossible to accentuate any other colour better than the black…

  • Blue Wind

    Blue Wind

    We encountered a lot of technical issues along the way, as we don’t know much about recording music. The mic leads quickly became tangled balls, we struggled to…

  • Dave

    Dave

    I personally enjoy the idea of posting portraits on Instagram, a platform that has become saturated with the portrait photograph and also deepened in context through…

  • Sagrado

    Sagrado

    O maior desafio era perceber o momento do clique, eu não queria piscar mas como saber? Eram poucas poses, não podíamos correr esse risco…

  • Fill The Mold

    Fill The Mold

    I really enjoy the experience of seeing an iPhone photo become a physical object…

  • Olli Rapold

    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…

  • Running On Fumes

    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…

  • The way we were

    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…

  • Worlds that resonate with distant planets

    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…

  • Living With Myself

    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…

  • Not yet time for breakfast

    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…

  • I stole it (I hope he doesn’t mind)

    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…

  • Asleep On The Sidewalk

    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…