Q: Why only black and white?
A: Black and white is about shapes. Before developing my wax drawing technique, I experimented with pencils and markers.
My interest in black and white was reinforced by the following:
1990s photocopied VHS catalogues with banned horror films
Books about horror films
Gustave Dore's illustrations for Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost
Black-and-white photography by Matti A. Pitkänen
Films such as Night of the Living Dead and Eraserhead
German expressionism
Q: Is now a great time to be an artist?
A: Yes, if you want to create something that stands out. The world is absolutely bursting with homogenous claptrap.
The problem is that people want simple answers now. They want the safety of fanaticism and mainstream obsessions.
The mainstream has always been obsessed with the latest, the most popular, the surface, strict categories and pleasing a target audience.
I have never cared about target audiences. My job is to look around. What's there and what's not there. Sanity and curiosity go hand in hand.
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