Archive for July, 2008

Carmine Magazine: What drives you to create? Also, what inspires you and your work?
Jinx in the Sky with Diamonds: I’m not a person who talks much, but that doesn’t mean I don’t make my own thoughts about things. I’d rather say I think too much and often in strange, complicated ways, that words can’t express. So I have the need to paint to express my feelings and thoughts about life. Dreams are very inspiring to me. I have the ability to remember my dreams very detailed and if a dream is especially interesting I write it down in a dream diary that I keep beside my bed. I love reading it from time to time because it is so very surreal and otherworldly. Other sources of inspiration are: The underwater world (mostly because being under water triggers lucid dreaming for me when I’m asleep), mythology, music, fairytales…

CM: Were you formally trained in art or self taught? Do you think it has
helped you or hindered you?
JitSwD: For the most part I’m self taught but I studied art at school until graduation at age 19. It wasn’t all there is to know but it helped me enough to get interested in Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte and many other great artists of the Surrealist movement, which I discovered to be my sort of direction.
(more…)

To say that I am excited to see the next Batman movie brought to the big screen next Friday, here in the states anyway, is a bit of an understatement. The Batman franchise had a huge influence on me as a child and while it wasn’t my favorite cartoon based on a comic from the early 1990s (that prize goes to The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) it was definitely in second place. The movies from the 80s and 90s were also quite dear to my heart. Michael Keaton as Batman, Jack Nicholson as Joker, Danny DeVito as The Penguin, Michael Gough as Alfred and Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman? I really don’t understand why people are talking so much trash about the original movies at the moment.
(more…)