Creative art work can be hard to define, I remember when I was transitioning from illegal graffiti to legal work. At first I didn’t know how I would make it interesting and go from quick two or three coloured pieces to more involved work. It wasn’t like I hadn’t done more involved work after the 2000s but it was an aside from the job of getting my name up. I found a kind of in between solution where I wasn’t spending hours on productions but also not doing something in fifteen minutes.

I had to be interested in what I was doing rather than locked into the formula of in and out. So making solutions on the fly was the answer for me and I still feel awkward about it. I kind of have always doubted everything I do anyway. Unpolished work is hard to appreciate in the current environment. It can seem lazy to people or half done. My art at university was always described as beautiful yet crude, and I was labelled an ‘artists artist’. I just made art with anything I found at university.

Documentation in video, found objects, it was all ripe for getting a message across. The main message in my work then and now is art gives you the opportunity to perceive mundane things in unexpected ways. For example I set up three video cameras, one that was facing down on a table with a thong on it, another viewing the output of the first video camera  and a third video camera viewing the second output screen. The output was projected onto a screen, and my teachers looked at the output.

The first thing they said was that the image was an ancient building, they spoke of ancient architecture and the like. After a few minutes I grabbed the thong from the video camera viewing it and told them what they were looking at. The same happens with any creative process, things are skewed by the medium, the approach changes things. The hardest part of any art form is getting people to actually make the effort to look and think. In a way I purposely make that hard and people are at visual and mental capacity. Mostly the approach I take annoys people, because people can be like “why?”