At the moment, I’m still working on this season’s playlist. I feel like as I started to get more into the groove with the work I’m making and started to form a more solid idea of what this body of work was really about the playlist just became stronger and stronger. I mean, I always grow incredibly emotionally attached to my playlists. But I have a very special connection with this one. Maybe because of all of the developments that have come as I’ve been working to it or maybe just because there’s just a really powerful attachment between my work and the music.
The whole point of these playlists is that I find that music has a real influence on my work. When I was in my first year of painting at SCAD I remember being down about the work I was making and thinking “I just want to make something really beautiful” so I put on No Shape by Perfume Genius and then painted what I thought was the most beautiful thing I’d ever painted. It was also a huge breakthrough in my work. So I’ve always believed in the power of music.
I don’t know if you can get a sense of the work just through the playlist like I can. There have definitely been shifts in the journey as I’ve been on it so…it might seem a little all over the place. But to me it fully encompasses what my new work is about. Which I’ll eventually share with you. But it has to be a secret for now.