“Very often it’s about concept exploration and my personal psychology, but that can get indulgent so I try and keep it on the abstract side. If I can avoid pop tropes and detached dread of Latter-Day Thom Yorke I feel pretty good.” Age: 27 Location: Seattle Are you single or do you have a current...

“I really enjoy folk art, myths, and cautionary tales. I am a glutton for those stories! In them, they explore the meaning of regret, loss, and consequences. In terms of my work, I touch on the same themes, illustrating my own cautionary tales, at the very least referencing a feeling.”          ...

“All we have to do is follow our heart, walk the path that we were born to walk, and on the way we will find everyone we were meant to find. Who will help us grow, and become who we were always meant to be, and in fact, be exactly who we are.”    ...

“Process plays a large role in my work, so the lack of a hand physically touching a surface and using tools, with all the intricacies and human errors that go along with it, to me that just seems wrong… process means rolling with the punches, ruining a piece and bringing it back to life.”  ...

“I’m interested in the journey of all this and playing with new techniques and ideas. I don’t want to be political or use recognisable imagery or figures. I’m interested in the normal, mundane and ordinary when it is brought to the surface and made beautiful. I want to keep producing and creating, to keep learning”...

“… there is that freedom of being a child and making things with no preconceptions, no theory, no bullshit story just an imaginative stream coming out of their heads. There is enough shit and misery in this world that I’d rather not focus on im my work, art should be enjoyed”        ...

“There is this shift in thinking happening, and this feeling that we need to go back to what was good. To quit our jobs and get back to nature and spirituality. The image of the USA that you see in the media is not really what is happening here. There is a shift happening”  ...

“In general I have to say I prefer the western parts of the country to the eastern parts. Once you hit the Dakotas things start to open up and get wild and beautiful. And I think it carries over into the attitude of the people. There is an atmosphere of possibility and ruggedness.”    ...

“Images and words are powerful things, people have always recognized that. I believe all the arts have roots in magic and that shamanism is part of the creative inclination… I really believe that it has a primal and important role in the life of the artist, the viewer and society.”          ...