“You start to think in geometric shapes as building blocks again.”
Music is a big part of your work, be it through a band poster or record sleeve. What music are you most into?
I think it all started with ’80s and ’90s hip hop for me, and through that I became very interested in sampling and what the sampling sources were for those records. So I learned a lot about funk, soul, disco, jazz etc. — because I wanted to create tracks myself. And actually that whole approach made me interested in a lot more kinds of music, mostly from the sixties. So I guess my taste would be very eclectic, although I tend to go for a bit more ‘beefy’ music than something ethereal. At the studio, I play a lot of ’90s hip hop, electro, house, punk and psychedelic music. From time-to-time, I still make music myself or do some sound design for my animations with a sampler, old records and some analog synths.
You’ve also mentioned that animation and wood sculpture are new explorations for you. What have been some of the challenges with working in three dimensions and in animation?
So the interesting thing in translating your work into 3D is you start to notice things that might look good in a drawing that will not look good when you try to sculpt or make them in that extra dimension. Also some shapes you’ve drawn cannot really exist in 3D, so you have to find other ways of approaching that shape. Apart from that, woodworking takes some time to learn and understand how to apply it, but YouTube is an amazing place for that. The interesting thing I discovered is that when using woodworking machines, you start to think in geometric shapes as building blocks again — the same way I would approach typography or stylized drawings.
Doing animation I’ve learned that you cannot really calculate how something is going to be interesting, funny, or dynamic before-hand — it’s just trying stuff out and fiddling with it until it works. But I like making simple animations that are funny, and maybe a bit uncomfortable and leave something to the imagination.
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