When did you know you wanted to create art?
S: I have always done it, I wasn't a great student in high school and I hung out in the art room all the time and my senior year I decided art was my direction. Working in the darkroom was lovely, I felt like I was really doing something.
C: So you wanted to do photography?
C: So you wanted to do photography?
S: Well yeah, I decided on UArts in Philly because they had a foundation of courses that covered everything and I liked the 2-D course, graphic design and it seemed liked a stable direction. Now I think I might have done something more in the fine arts.
C: What brought you here?
C: What brought you here?
S: I transferred here in my sophomore year and went with the graphic design program because I had gone the farthest in it already.
C: I really like your theme that talks about less having to be more especially because it pertained to your life at that time could you talk about how the situations you were in inspired you artwork and what effect it had?
S: Well yeah, I got really sick in my freshman year in college, No one could figure out what was wrong with me, I got misdiagnosed and decided to take it into my own hands and I was realizing I was being polluted by the food I was eating and now four years later I am a vegan and I have nothing wrong with me and I totally cured with me, I make all my own stuff and use as much organic food and products as possible. I cured myself, and thats what got me into repurposing things and also because I needed to save money and not being sick anymore I was able to find myself and really figure out what I am doing as an artist.
C: "Using Less to Make More" This is a great quote Im reading off your project, can you talk about what it means?
S: I was totally broke at that time so I really had to work with what I had and led me to actually work with garbage that I was accumulating.
C: This documentation of your garbage is fascinating can you talk about the process?
S: I was using all found and repurposed materials, the cover was a repurposed folder, a garbage bag and waste paper is mainly all I used. The plastic bag shows how all my trash was connected and mapped. Each ring shows the genre of trash and the amount of rings showed amount of time they take to decompose.
C: I really like your theme that talks about less having to be more especially because it pertained to your life at that time could you talk about how the situations you were in inspired you artwork and what effect it had?
S: Well yeah, I got really sick in my freshman year in college, No one could figure out what was wrong with me, I got misdiagnosed and decided to take it into my own hands and I was realizing I was being polluted by the food I was eating and now four years later I am a vegan and I have nothing wrong with me and I totally cured with me, I make all my own stuff and use as much organic food and products as possible. I cured myself, and thats what got me into repurposing things and also because I needed to save money and not being sick anymore I was able to find myself and really figure out what I am doing as an artist.
C: "Using Less to Make More" This is a great quote Im reading off your project, can you talk about what it means?
S: I was totally broke at that time so I really had to work with what I had and led me to actually work with garbage that I was accumulating.
C: This documentation of your garbage is fascinating can you talk about the process?
S: I was using all found and repurposed materials, the cover was a repurposed folder, a garbage bag and waste paper is mainly all I used. The plastic bag shows how all my trash was connected and mapped. Each ring shows the genre of trash and the amount of rings showed amount of time they take to decompose.
C:Awesome! This next chart of dripping blood, what are we looking at?
S:This is actually a chart of word frequency in a metal rock album and the blood drips lower to show what words were used more, its a cool way to visualize how language is used.
C: Sweet, what are these images of disney characters next to erotic female photos
S:This is a piece I did where I was commenting on how disney objecties the body and does what advertisements do even though there suppose to be just entertainment. I made it into a drawing pad, like the same kind of paper that kids get to draw on at restaurants and make it not art just like a surface to draw on on a table.
C: This smiley face made out of looped plastic, what is this piece about?
C: This smiley face made out of looped plastic, what is this piece about?
S: The looped plastic is actually cut up plastic bags from the grocery store and i used about a hundred bags for that piece. This piece was examining the amount of waste we go through and also how we really can make art from stuff that is considered waste.
C: Is this toilet paper tacked to billboards?
S: Yeah , I had to do a project where I used a celebrity's twitter feed so I chose Dane Cook and thought he wouldn't give a shit about this project so I put it on toilet paper and posted it over other peoples posters.
C: Shad Fest looks like fun, can you talk about the book you made about it?
S: I went to Shad Fest and took a bunch of photos, collected alot of information and collected alot of cards and advertisements. I put the whole thing in this book as like a experience of Shad Fest and made it this shape to emulate the way the fish swim upstream.
C: What is an ideal next ten years of your life?
S: I want to move to Utah and just be in the landscape and grow up away from everything around here. Everyone says your going to miss this place but I don't think I will.
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