The Manifold Issue 5 LEGACY

71 My art is my fantasy world. More and more I’ve been gravitating towards making things and people that I either wish I had in my life or wish I could, myself, be. Not that I don’t think I can be like my characters, but they are where I want to be. Like I said before, these are mostly reminders to myself. At least when it’s positive.

If a piece ends up taking more of a negative approach it is more of a vent, a way to get something out and into a physical form.

Legacy is the theme for this current issue of the magazine. What comes to your mind when you hear that word? In addition, are there any values or influences that you feel were handed down to you from your family or artistic predecessors that have shaped the artist you become and hope to be in the future?

I already touched a bit on influence, but artistically I’ve taken a lot more from literature than I have any visual artist. My favorite authors are Kobo Abe, Franz Kafka, Kurt Vonnegut, CS Lewis, and Haruki Murakami.

Our legacy is everything we have to leave behind. We live in very frail very temporary bodies, but what we do with our lives and what we create for those after us is our legacy. What we make is what we are and what we leave behind.

All I really want to leave behind is something positive.