When did you know that you waned to be an artist?

Well, it’s very nice that you should say that… I don’t know if I’m an ‘artist’ artist. I just do things.

But it’s a creative way of life that you lead.

Ok, yeah, I definitely agree with that. When did I decide? Probably some time in high school. I went to an International School in Bangkok, and I wasn’t very social back then. I kept to myself. Very introverted. My kind of outlet was to do airbrushing. Very influenced back then by H.R. Giger, Alien designs and all that. And Giger was kind of this modern, surrealist guy. 'What’s up with surrealism?' So I got into Dali, started my little art history personal education from then on. And the art room for me was always a retreat. Could throw on some Aphex Twin, zone out and paint. I dropped the painting after a while, and was really into computing too. I decided to go to art school just on a whim. Back then, even when I was nine years old, I didn’t know that I wanted to be an artist and lead a creative lifestyle, I just knew that I didn’t want to be anything else! I didn’t know that art was a career path. It was so murky for me. Yeah, you just do it, you know? And it’s distilled down now: It’s not really film making, it’s not really photography; it’s not really any of those mediums that I do. It’s more just making images, telling stories, no matter how you do it. Visually. With audio. Aurally, or anything like that. Didn’t expect to be an artist… just happy I love what I do now. Happy I’ve found that kind of hunger, and I hope I’ll always be hungry…

What are you hungry for now?

Pictures. Compelling images. Adequate images that communicate.

Adequate images? What’s an inadequate image?

Everything you see on television, mostly. Corporate imagery. Inadequate.

And why is that?

It’s manipulative, and usually very base in terms of its message. One layer only. There’s no kind of thinking process that’s demanded from the viewer. So you kind of become a vegetable and only receive. That’s what I love so much about street art: It demands interaction. It demands your eye to read, to decode, to appreciate, to take time. So I’m slowly transitioning from video to still photography a lot more now. Not that I’ve abandoned video at all, because I love motion picture, it’s its own language. I’ve just been interested a lot more in the language of still images, because it forces you to tell stories in singular moments in time, and try to tell as much or half as much information in that frame as a one minute clip.

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