Art is creation. That is why I art. I love the process of creation in all manners. Cooking, writing, building; I love creation in all forms. Even more so when the final product is something that turns out well and usable. I find everything about the process of planning and coming up with ideas of the work especially exciting. The feeling of coming up with an idea that clicks in my head. Being able to communicate that idea with others is what I want to do. To see the look in others' eyes when that idea clicks for them too is my motivation.
Initially, I dove into spray paint to escape from the traditional, over played medias. Spray paint is new. Something that many artists have yet to make a name for themselves with. Furthermore, spray paint has a dark connotation due to its close association with graffiti and urban culture. That taboo association helps me emphasize the darker ideas and subjects I strive to bring out in my works. After coming up with a concrete idea I then am faced with translating that into the language of spray paint. This process includes thinking about color schemes, blending, special effects, but most importantly stenciling. Stenciling ideas can be the most complicated because it involves planning every step of the whole project before even starting.
I find the way people think is incredibly interesting. The power of something that holds no literal power over people is intriguing to me. In my art, I often try to create something that evokes that. that I have often turned to in the past is Goetia and demonology. These are peculiar subjects because even though they have roots in the bases of many religions and is relatively uncommon knowledge today. One of my main inspirations from these subjects is the with sigils (basically a symbol with “magical” power) of demons and how people can fear the power they supposedly hold even without prior knowledge of what it is. To me, a not very religious person, these symbols hold little to no power in my eyes. By putting them in my work and giving something with such “evil” and “magical” power a metaphorical purpose in the compass of my world I am able to steal away the hypothetical power it holds to say something. These long-forgotten demon sigils are evil in theory but there are two sides to each story. So, when people see these mysterious symbols in my work and then are told the theoretical power that they supposedly hold I love their reaction. After they begin to understand the new meaning I’ve bestowed upon it I hope they realize just how much power this sigil truly has to them.
Initially, I dove into spray paint to escape from the traditional, over played medias. Spray paint is new. Something that many artists have yet to make a name for themselves with. Furthermore, spray paint has a dark connotation due to its close association with graffiti and urban culture. That taboo association helps me emphasize the darker ideas and subjects I strive to bring out in my works. After coming up with a concrete idea I then am faced with translating that into the language of spray paint. This process includes thinking about color schemes, blending, special effects, but most importantly stenciling. Stenciling ideas can be the most complicated because it involves planning every step of the whole project before even starting.
I find the way people think is incredibly interesting. The power of something that holds no literal power over people is intriguing to me. In my art, I often try to create something that evokes that. that I have often turned to in the past is Goetia and demonology. These are peculiar subjects because even though they have roots in the bases of many religions and is relatively uncommon knowledge today. One of my main inspirations from these subjects is the with sigils (basically a symbol with “magical” power) of demons and how people can fear the power they supposedly hold even without prior knowledge of what it is. To me, a not very religious person, these symbols hold little to no power in my eyes. By putting them in my work and giving something with such “evil” and “magical” power a metaphorical purpose in the compass of my world I am able to steal away the hypothetical power it holds to say something. These long-forgotten demon sigils are evil in theory but there are two sides to each story. So, when people see these mysterious symbols in my work and then are told the theoretical power that they supposedly hold I love their reaction. After they begin to understand the new meaning I’ve bestowed upon it I hope they realize just how much power this sigil truly has to them.