DOGWASHER

DogWasher doesn’t mean anything it just sounds cool and it’s nice to have something to add an element of fun into poems which can be quite heavy. I want to be taken seriously but not to get lost in it. Art should still be fun like the moments that inspire the poems they conflict between good times and bad or pretty and pretty ugly.

Everything I read and look at on the street or in movies is an inspiration. The writings and the collages are just amalgamations of all the cool stuff other creatives do or what people put out there into the world. At the moment I like Kurt Vonnegut, The Brian Jonestown Massacre and the usual graffiti walls thats up the collage of urban life.

Materials and tools used are as integral to the work as the words. For me it’s about the action of doing as much as anything, writing the poem, rewriting it, over and over with markers and obscuring it to really drive in the act of writing is important, even if it makes it less legible. Also the receipts and packaging all tell their own story which is just as important as mine as far as I’m concerned. They live their lives functionally and are the fabric of everyday, until they are up on a wall as a painting somewhere, then they become questions about consumption and journeys.

My main goal is to create as much physical work as possible because in a world of digital it’s nice to exist. To feel like you produced something real with feeling instead of just going through the motions of life without stopping to think about it. That’s the goal. That’s the genesis of the work and the work. That’s the process, which is the most important thing, the actual doing of something.