In what ways has the ASUS Vivobook expanded the scope of your creative process?
I work a lot in the digital medium, and I think it’s very much the medium of our time. It’s the most defining artistic movement of our time. I think digital art — the metaverse, Web3 — all this new technology is evolving new systems. I work a lot in that dimension, and I think the laptop, to some extent, is like the new studio; it’s a sort of democratic art platform for all. Through the laptop, one can enter different worlds, create different identities and have different avatars and, in a way, interact with the global connectivity of creation. Computers are very much the gateway into these new creative worlds. To make my own like laptop as an artwork in itself is like having a gateway into my metaverse. It seemed like a really fun collaborative process.
When creating, does your process start in the physical or digital realm?
I’m constantly developing narratives — a little bit like sifting for gold in a stream with a sieve. I’m intaking so much information in pop culture and in my life — thinking philosophically about things or contemplating mortality — bigger philosophical issues. I’m always processing all this information, and from an artistic point of view, I sift for what I find symbolically impactful. Certain things collect up in the sieve that, through repetition, become my language like certain symbols, colors — I’m very into primary colors. I developed this persona of the lobster and then a whole world developed from that. It’s a process of taking in things, sieving them and processing these things in connection to certain ideas. In terms of how [my art] develops from there, often it’s through sketching. I’ll have ideas, and I’ll just grab paper or anything to try and start working.
Other times, I use a tablet. I’ve been using the ASUS Vivobook recently because I love the fact that it’s an amazing way of sketching. I travel for shows and using the ASUS Vivobook is an amazing way of working on new designs for paintings or sculptures. I can add colors and save and repeat things or copy them, paint them and delete things. I can play on different layers, and I love the idea of keeping it as a sketch, treating it like a raw, complex drawing, or approaching it more like a developed computer-generated image. I like the freedom of that process. I always travel with a tablet and I’ve found it to be hugely beneficial to my creative process, in addition to traditional sketching.
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