BizarreBeyondBelief: As both a visual artist and a photographer, How do you feel each artistic expression feeds each other? Hart Goetze: I certainly feel that both my photography and painting influence each other on differents levels. My photography is most often be where I pull my subject material from and thus is slightly changing what & how i shoot, not to say that I only shoot with a specific idea in mind, the majority of the images I use are ones taken in the spur of the moment. The best approach is to ALWAYS keep your camera by your side. On the painting side of things, I take a lot of the elements which are native to
photographic imagery such as high contrast, colour distortion and extreme depth of field, and seek to make them a part of the image produced through me. I find the benefit of having a moment/subject isolated truly beneficial. BBB: As someone who has extensive knowledge of the underground and neglected neighbourhoods of the cities you lived in, do you believe that the urban environment plays the largest role in your work? HG: Absolutely. I'm a
product of my environment and what i produce is a product of me. Not to say that only my city is the source of all my inspiration, but rather it would seem that urban areas are an environment I can relate to, having been born and raised in one, and traveled to many. The amount which happens around the clock is astonishing. The amount of human beings crammed into one area, so many spaces which we're aware of in our city's streets, yet at the same time seemingly infinite s paces and perspectives to be observed which go almost untouched or unnoticed for decades.