excerpt from May 2011 Mammoth Collection Interview

In a time when you can simply click a few buttons to create perfectly symmetrical shapes, you chose to create yours by hand. Can you tell us a little about your process?

I’m not anti-technology or anything, but I’m so into tactile, ‘real’ things with mass and texture.  It doesn’t feel like I’m truly creating unless I’m making the forms with my own two hands, as simply as possible.  The directness of it holds my attention.  I think the human touch, and the resulting tiny imperfections, are what makes these images valuable.  It is the aspiration to perfection that I am interested in, rather than perfection itself.  It correlates with religion in this weird way—the ceremony is performed and that’s important in and of itself for the performer (me); and then the ingredients of pen and paper and water and pigment combine to create this potentially powerful totem for myself, and hopefully an audience.

The shapes themselves remind me of these very large deities, or blueprints for massive space colonies—something huge and emblematic of our grandest human aspirations and institutions.  But they are also simple, intentionally flat crystalline formations, which I originally started making without any greater implications.

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xL