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I was born in suburban Ohio—it was a great place to grow up. I played outside, watched a lot of TV and played a lot of video games. I also drew pictures all the time. I liked making up creatures and drawing animals out of the Encyclopaedia. After receiving my bachelor of fine arts, I moved to San Francisco with my roommate. I’ve lived in this fun and beautiful “city by the bay” for six years now. My drawings these days come from a mix of child-like enchantments and momentary adult situations. I still enjoy making up creatures and giving them individual personalities. |
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Mind Tricks – Matt Furie
I was born in suburban Ohio—it was a great place to grow up. I played outside, watched a lot of TV and played a lot of video games. I also drew pictures all the time. I liked making up creatures and drawing animals out of the Encyclopaedia. After receiving my bachelor of fine arts, I moved to San Francisco with my roommate. I’ve lived in this fun and beautiful “city by the bay” for six years now.
My drawings these days come from a mix of child-like enchantments and momentary adult situations. I still enjoy making up creatures and giving them individual personalities. I’m also interested in conveying a sense of communication between creatures, both verbal and nonverbal, giving them distinct human characteristics.
It’s important that I never get all stressed out or sweat what I’m doing. I like just hanging out, listening to music and drawing pictures at my desk. I use colored pencils, pens and a bit of paint to draw creatures having sex, having a discussion, thinking together, dying, fighting, etc. It’s borderline escapism—or a form of escapism that, to me, is positive.
I’ve worked in the children’s section of a thrift store for a couple of years and I get a ton of inspiration from this job. I take home children’s books, toys, stuffed animals and all sorts of stuff that I reference in my art. I like how each toy has a story and how it has its own, unique energy. I think about a toy’s birth as a concept or cartoon, its beginnings at the factory in China surrounded by hundreds or thousands of clones of itself, and how important just one of these clones can be for a kid. I sometimes daydream about fossilized big birds being dug up bazillions of years from now.
