INSPIRATION

I'm also really inspired by writers and artists like Hunter S. Thompson, Ralph Steadman and Elmore Leonard. In high school I picked up Hunter S. Thompson’s Rum Diaries for the first time read:

“Like most others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles—a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other—that kept me going.” 

I remember reading this and thinking to myself that I had never felt someone so specifically articulate exactly how I felt (then and still now). This tension between idealism and doom is something I relate to very deeply.  Exploring mixed media and the varying aesthetic approaches I bring to set is my way of bottling up that tension and making something meaningful out of it. Sometimes it can go dark and gritty and other times it feels bright and playful.