Via Fecal Face: Let’s talk about clowns. I am drawn to your work for a number of reasons, but the first thing I wonder is how you decide on your content and what is said content’s significance to you? “I don’t really know the answer to that. I know that I seem to be drawn to sad characters, the forlorn reject. Something about being on the outside. The outcast. But I also am intrigued by the super confident fool. He too is a reject. I’m not really interested in what’s accepted by people. I like the things, places and characters that have been forsaken. On both sides of the field. The happy genius fool and the pathetic misfit. I guess I like drama.”
Why did you decide you want make art? “My mom, aunt, uncle, everyone in my small family is a painter, or an artist of some kind. So I was painting my whole life, out doing landscape paintings around the beach where I grew up when I was 14-ish. Thus, painting was kind of not what I wanted to do for a while when I went to school, that’s why I went to film school. Also the life as a painter just seemed a little too serious for me, but I’ve managed to make it what I want it to be for myself, I think. I have a healthy balance going on right now, hopefully. Also, my dad’s an architect, that’s probably where the animation bug came from — making little worlds that you create and be supreme leader in, except mine are mini and made from wood and clay. I have always been drawn to fantasy worlds, theatrical worlds, hand-made worlds. This world doesn’t always hold my attention for very long. But I also love animators and comedians. That’s probably another reason I was drawn to animation.”
