What appealed to you? What made you want to join in on the project?
I’ve always enjoyed Red Stripe aesthetically. I really appreciate that they are reaching out
to the artist community and kick starting all these creative projects.
What did you think when you got the van as your canvas?
I’m used to either working flat, in lettering design or working on one in a single word intervention, working with one object and this was a lot of ground to cover so to speak.
Where did you get your inspiration for the van print and everything you do with it?
With the van and the name of this section of the project to make it move I thought it would be interesting to plaster the van with the sounds of a moving van, the act of people shifting stuff from one place to another, so you’ve got the glug of the gas tank and thumps of boxes falling down and rattles and creeks of an old moving van and speech bubbles from the driver and the passengers coming out of the front windows.
What is your inspiration in your everyday? Is there an artist or artwork?
There are a few, aesthetically and operationally. I know people that use type in interesting ways. People like Steve Powers, who is also a street artist known as S PO.
Were there any challenges for this project for you or that you think you’ll be faced with?
It was additionally challenging, designing in 2 dimensions for something that was going to be 3 dimensions. You have someone that runs a review and you design something and that’s all in 2 dimensions, so getting here and scaling it up, wrapping it around an actual object in space, finding the specific van that was onsite, is slightly different from general pictures of moving vans that one sees and most of the type on the van is specific to something that would be going on in the van. For example, the gas tank glugging, the gas tank was on the front of the box rather than being on the back, so we shifted the design around. These are good challenges for me.
What do you hope that this art that you are doing for Red Stripe will inspire an artist?
Generally I want my work to invite a sense of wonderment and that tends to get lost as we grow older.
