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Kim Scott How often do you think about meat every day? I don't think about meat as that delicious protean laden porterhouse that passes from the plate to the mouth very often. I do think about the components that make up the 2D likeness of meat, such as red, white, blending, value, shade, highlight and edges... The best texture for the substrate and the brushes that make the right marks if used properly. What pastiche I can mix to get a mouth feel from the viewer, or myself. I am a vegetarian, and do often get a mouth feel, or sudden craving to eat meat when I research my meat images. Others have commented that my work made them hungry, which I use to advance the paintings intended effect. I use Bugs for the same reason, I get an unpleasant mouth feel when I study them closely. I also find them beautiful, interesting, and precious. I avoid killing them almost all the time. I see myself and others I love in them.
Do you paint meat because you love it or hate it? I don't love or hate meat. After all, I am mostly made up of the same stuff we call meat. I just hate seeing others suffering and love happiness. Calling animals meat is usually the beginning of suffering for them, but perhaps temporary happiness for those that eat them... especially when you add BBQ sauce and a glass or two of beer.
What do you enjoy eating the most? I am a an addict of high glycemic index foods, and increasingly crave them the more I eat them. When I go "off" high GI foods, I like the taste of everything else I eat equally and in a way not infused with the high dissatisfaction of addiction. I used to live in Mcleod Ganj India, where there is a pretty large Tibetan Buddhist Resettlement camp. I studied Buddhism and enjoyed the waves of culture that were made there and traveled through there from other places. My main teacher was advised not to adopt a vegetarian diet because of health reasons, but he chose to eat meat only every other day to reduce the suffering he was supporting by eating meat everyday. I was an on again off again vegetarian, punctuating vegetable and grain consumption with BBQ Sausage, salmon, hamburgers and chili verde. I decided to addopt somechanges, by not eating meat 6 months a year, and deciding daily if I wanted to eat meat the other six months. I craftily chose July 1-December 31st to allow meat choices because it included july 4th, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas... big feasting days. I made that choice for 12 years, then cut the meat all together the last three years.... except to paint it....When did you start painting? When did you start painting in the delicious style you do today? My mom was an artist at the time, and she encouraged me to make stuff from scratch. I learned I loved it then. My "delicious" style started shortly after I started college, When I learned some technique options from my community College painting teacher, Gary Pruner, who was a sort of pop photo-realist at the time. He was a student of Mel Ramos and Jack Ogden.. who were taught by Wayne Theabauld who was a student of Diebenkorn. I started really looking at art from all places and times, and a little later traveling to see the great museums and archeological sites of the World... and THIS was what made me want to make my work more delicious. I like to eat it (with my eyes), so why wouldn't I want to serve it?
What started you on this particular artistic course? The desire to be known.If you could start a war with a particular artist or school of art, who would be staring down the tops of your ballistic missiles? Here we go. Sometime I see work that is adored, paid for, blogged, critiqued and gawked at by many.... and here I am thinking... This has got to be an episode of "The Emperors New Cloths" or something. In the end though, I prefer using wits and heart over guns.What sorts of people do you think your art appeals to? Cannibals and Saints.What sorts of people do you hope your art appeals to? Cannibals and Saints (and everything in between) . My art is a beacon of images sent from me to whoever looks at it. Some will look for a moment, others will see, and a few I will commune with through the image through time. I see works of art sometimes and I feel like the artist has touched me directly, no mater where or when s/he came from. Sometimes its a bop on the head, a punch in the stomach, or a sweet sweet kiss on the lips. Art can be a big fat time machine conveying all sorts of bits and pieces of fashion, ideas, feelings and insights. Thats radical don't you think? Low tech science.
Have you gone to school for art? (If so: Did your teachers like you?) (If not: why not?) I went to American River Community College in Sacramento, then the Art Dept at California State University at Sacramento. Most of my teachers liked me. I had one who grabbed me by the ear, dragged me into the back room and told me I was in artistic diapers and that I took the worst part of a photograph and painted it worse. He might have been right, but this only made me want to show him he was wrong... Later someone told me he had said to his class I was the best student he ever had...... I think I made a challenge for many of the teachers, I used to wear mustaches,and costumes to class, paint my face during lectures, and talk too much. I did to a bunch of work though, and made things happen.Has anyone exhibited physical repulsion to your art? (If not: What if someone did, what would you say or do to them?) Oh yeah. I had someone run crying from the gallery at my masters show. I used to post "adults only" signs on my shows at school. My brother once said to me "Why can't you ever paint anything nice". I think my work now is beautiful enough to get people to look for a second... then the content has enough time to poke them in the eye a little. I think my characters are sympathetic. Sometime funny, sometime mystified, sometimes sexy or boring. I say "thank you" or whatever seems to respond to their experience. People ask me "Why Meat?" I tell them a little story about why I like to paint it, or ask them, 'what was your experience?' and tell them this is a fine meaning for them. I do try to control the viewers experience, but don't have the skill to take that all the way to duplicating my own experience for them... thats ok, I'll keep honing my skills.
If you could vote anyone on earth from any time into presidential office, who would it be and why? I am president of my artist housing community, SurrealEstates. Listening to the desires and fears of 11 families is more than I can handle half the time. I can't even imagine what it takes to lead a country. Sheer brillience. That being said, there are some people with a spark of brilliance that have ethics and insight too. How about the Dalai Lama? He would make mistakes, but no doubt be more sincere and intelligent than the present company (the BUSH armada). He would certainly want the best for everyone, not just his rich buddies.Let's pretend you listen to music when you paint, what music would you pretend to listen to? The song of the Sirens... East Indian, Islamic, African, Cuban, I like that world stuff. It makes me feel like I'm painting in another country.Are you a hippy? (If not: Why aren't you a hippy?) How did you know? Make love, not war.Have you ever painted anything you hated? What was it? Now and then something looks a little dead. (hehe) When in college, I would take a razor bade and cut out the best 4 square inches and throw the rest out... when I was making sculpture, I would burn them if they needed a little help... now I paint over what I don't like. I don't do this often though.Do you have any unusual or hidden talents? (If so: What are they?) I make great fruit Tamales. (this is NOT a code word for some deviant sex act.... or is it?)Do you dance when you want to, do you leave your friends behind (if they don't dance)? Most of my friends like to dance. We have dances about once a month where I teach. Its all abut the hot dogs and dancing to CDs and videos. I teach with a bunch of artists and friends at an arts program for adults with developmental disabilities. Ours dances rock. My dancing mostly takes place there.
How many U.S. states can you name? My ignorance only shows as soon as I start the list and can't finish it......but I'm happy if you can name them all! I can name the ones I have been to, and a few others in between. To know them is to name them.What artist or school of art most influenced your current style? hum... there are so many, would have to be more than one.....to start right now...Rubens? Surrealism?What would you call your "style" of art? vanitas: noun, a still-life painting of a 17th-century Dutch genre containing symbols of death or change as a reminder of their inevitability.
What gets you out of "artist's block"? Clean the studio.What do you aspire to? What are you doing this for? What do you hope to become/ hope to achieve? I aspire to answer the call to adventure, learn about loving kindness and compassion, explore the mysteries of life and death, while kicking ass and inspiring those around me. I aspire to become the most awesome pied piper old lady artist.Who most encourages your artistic endeavors? My mom. She helped hard wire my desire to make art early on. My artist friends here in Sac, and ,my Art Dorks friends.. you know who you are.<< Back To Artist Interviews |
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