![]() ![]() It’s just kind of a strange party that starts to come alive. I mean if you see the characters that repeat… these kind of strange cosmic dogs, and then the Twitchy guys, you can definitely see this idea of mayhem on the docks of Miami. If it’s something like this show, for sure. If it’s something that veers more into abstraction, probably not. I’m curious, as a filmmaker and narrative storyteller, when you’re doing these paintings-and when you’re painting in general-do you ever think of the works as having a self-contained narrative in the sense you might with a film? Obviously when I look at your paintings I have a whole backstory in mind for what these guys are doing, and whether or not they’re menacing or nice. I always think the work is in some ways friendly and heartwarming and then people always say, “Oh there’s something more, there’s this menace in it.” I don’t know. Yeah, those two are the most confrontational. In your mind, do you think all the creatures have a happy vibe or are some of them… different? I agree they do seem playful, but there’s some-specifically I’m thinking the one called Twitchy Lurker and one of the others, the one with the car-seemed sort of menacing. In one of the statements you made about the show you talked about them as alien friends. I like the idea of starting on digital and then going to something super analog and basic.” “I wanted it to be pretty, the process of making them as basic as possible. After amassing a couple hundred of them, he decided he wanted to turn the images into oil paintings. Kind of cosmic alien lifeforms.” Over the course of about six months, he spent countless nights sitting outside, smoking cigars, and messing with the pictures. “Somehow it was just coming up with these almost like little lifeforms. I started taking photos of the sky late at night using flash, and sometimes different photo apps and stuff, and the images were kind of interesting with the accidents and the light flares.” He played with the colors and the contrast of the photos, and then used an art app to draw over them. “I would walk around and stare out at the water and look at the sky. ![]() “I would just stay up late at night after everyone in my house would go to sleep,” he told me recently. A couple of years ago Harmony Korine started noticing weird flickers of light on his phone screen while taking pictures around his home in Miami.
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