Interviews
“Si es absolutamente necesario que el arte o el teatro sirvan para algo, será para enseñar a la gente que hay actividades que no sirven para nada y que es indispensable que las haya.”
–Eugène Ionesco
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Madame de Pompadour
Working in impasto technique is immensely satisfying. It is something between painting and sculpture, I enjoyed the playfulness of the process…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Run Forever
It’s a challenge to be okay with creating minimalist art because in a way, it feels effortless…
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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…
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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…
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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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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…
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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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Daydream
As soon as I got this roll back from the lab I knew it has something special with those strange tones, as if it was an old holiday picture taken by your grandparents…
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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…
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To See
Heavily influenced by the work of swiss designers such as Josef Müller-Brockmann, etc. Using ink blots on paper to then create a poster focusing on layout, typography and colour…
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Tomorrow
I played a keyboard solo only with one finger. Not normal for me, as you may know, I can’t stand just looking at those beautiful black and white knobs…




























