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

  • Glitch

    Glitch

    I was influenced by Optical Art and glitch photography. The theorist Hito Steyerl has some great writing on the poor image that was inspiring to my process…

  • King St

    King St

    The carved ‘noise’ marks mimic the textures of the buildings and the tags that decorate them. It wouldn’t be as successful if I had attempted to control the marks and replicate the details through illustration…

  • Untitled

    Untitled

    I find the process of painting and printing like this quite relaxing and cathartic – I think of some random words, and before I can let them settle I put them onto paper…

  • Ruby Gill at The Evelyn

    Ruby Gill at The Evelyn

    I can feel the emotion that Ruby puts into her songwriting through this image. Her expressive face mirroring the moments her music manifests…

  • Alongtimealone

    Alongtimealone

    Simply painting freely, with no preconceived idea or direction. It then became a meditative process and pure act of expression…

  • Saw You at the Record Shop Today

    Saw You at the Record Shop Today

    I rarely like anything I do, that’s why I keep making songs, trying to make the perfect one. I need to move on from a song quickly and rarely revisit them. I assume they are full of mistakes…

  • Nueva Era

    Nueva Era

    Con todo y todo, puedo decir que me tocó vivir en un momento emocionante para la historia de la humanidad…

  • Home, Hold, Trace

    Home, Hold, Trace

    This ritual was instrumental in helping me process emotions through a complicated time, but also as a way for me to calibrate my own bearings in a city that was still very new to me…

  • burnout city race

    burnout city race

    Forgetting about all the photos I take cause it’s on film. Getting them processed and mostly being surprised good and bad…

  • home (a memory)

    home (a memory)

    I made this drawing quite quickly, so the marks are fast and expressive, not over considered or second guessed. There is a rawness to the work I enjoy…

  • Lucy

    Lucy

    On the first studio day, the song sounded more like a garage rock song, but on the second day we made some changes like adding a bunch of reverb, delay and acoustic guitars to give it more of a dreamy vibe…

  • Untitled

    Untitled

    I wanted to try and stay super loose and just let the paint feel it’s way around the canvas. It was more of an experimental work in progress that never made it to the public. That happens a lot in my practice…

  • Abbie

    Abbie

    It was a hot summer’s day. We walked around talking about music while looking for a nice area. I remember I was surprised that Abbie knew about Hundred Waters, one of my favourite bands. So I ended up playing their music during this…

  • The Stabbing House (self-portrait)

    The Stabbing House (self-portrait)

    I like the idea of simplifying the human form down to its fundamental shapes, being represented through our absence…

  • the evening after, in a hole

    the evening after, in a hole

    It was my first time shooting Fomapan Retropan, so I was really excited to see how it turned out. I enjoy the experiences surrounding the photograph more than the actual picture taking really…

  • Rainy Day Daydream

    Rainy Day Daydream

    We all live so far apart from one another, so the creative process is often limited to sending voice memos and messaging lyric ideas to one another…

  • Inheritance Series

    Inheritance Series

    This piece represents a new direction for my work and an exploration of symbols, food, ritual and memory that make connections to shared cultural heritage within the Armenian diaspora…

  • Schönbrunn Palace

    Schönbrunn Palace

    I was on holiday in Vienna, walking around endlessly with a broken toe. I think I ended up taking more photos than I would normally just as an excuse to stop and stand in the shade for a while…

  • Picnic at the Seaside

    Picnic at the Seaside

    I had this romantic idea that I would go hiking and sleep in the wild all by myself but then it all turned out to be a bit of a disaster…

  • Straight Shooter

    Straight Shooter

    I try to reference my own work, creating off what I’ve already created…

  • Angel Grindr

    Angel Grindr

    I get inspiration from all over the place, it’s often subconscious and I just point and shoot…

  • I See Colors

    I See Colors

    Adding layers and text brings so much depth to a piece of mine. I just let my mind expand, I don’t have a certain plan or outcome when it comes to any of my pieces…

  • Be Silent

    Be Silent

    Troy wrote this song back in 2019 when the Australian Bushfires were happening and it felt like it resonates well with it. When he presented the song to the band, we were really taken by…

  • From Mike to El

    From Mike to El

    This artwork was inspired by the scene in Stranger Things Season 5. The pizza glasses is a funny little detail that stuck in my head for a few days. It was mysterious and delicious in the same time…

  • Green Thumb

    Green Thumb

    This song is really special and close to home for us and so we hope that it brings a little happiness and joy for people to enjoy. Think about that someone you care for and make sure you’re putting in the effort…

  • 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…