“It’s a crazy alignment of the universe.”
You also work as an ACD at Robot at UNINTERRUPTED. Can you talk about your day-to-day, how you balance it with your art, and how they fuel each other?
They are hype people. They’re more excited about the things that I do than I am. I’ve been here since August and are a fairly small team, but we do a lot. Google and Fortnite are our biggest clients. I specifically work on the latter. We just finished the project with The Weeknd and spent some time in Mexico City. But my day-to-day is very random.
As you mentioned earlier, television is a big muse for your work. What are some shows you’re currently watching right now? Also, which songs have been on repeat?
I just finished watching Fargo, which is very interesting. I like eerie and creepy shows. I also just finished watching Beef. I don’t know what took me so long to watch that, but I loved how weird it was — such as the title cards and the artwork, just little things like that. I love cinematography. I’ve been watching a lot of movies actually, went on a big A24 binge.
Watched Mandy (2018) with Nicholas Cage. It was a horror-thriller, which was super psychedelic and cinematically beautiful. Watching stuff like that helps with my compositions — whether I want to do something cleaner, like a stroke style, or something that’s more lucid and loose, I’m very influenced by movies.
As far as music goes, I just paint to classical music. My mind races a lot, so if I start listening to music while I’m painting, for some reason, I’l just start doing something else or check my phone. I wouldn’t let the shuffle just do its thing. Once I’ve picked that phone up, I’ve lost. I’ve been defeated. [laughs]
