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Saturday, May 10, 2014

Saturday, November 09, 2013

Q and A

Who are some artists you have been jammin' on as of late?

hmmmm well I saw Alex Bag lecture recently which was amazing. She made an “experimental” film called “Untitled- Fall ‘95” which is about art school, & she has other great work too. I’ve also been looking at some Japanese designers like Rei Kawakubo, Yohji Yamamoto, and Junya Watanabe. It’s interesting, in Kansas City I was making a lot of really colorful work with lots of pinks & neons, but when I moved to the North West I almost immediately started making really monochromatic work & became interested in very clean, minimal black & white images. (my Tumblr archive shows the abrupt change). I haven’t been seeking out new artists to look at lately, which is weird. But I have been getting inspiration & ideas from other places, mainly Ram Dass lectures (and, of course, Be Here Now) as well as the Tibeten Book of the Dead. I dunno, this place is dark and rainy and all the old trees make you think about death, so I’ve been making work about death (which is impossible).
What artists have you been into lately??? I bet you have good ones.