FAD magazine managed to catch some time with DSC to ping him over some questions to answer.
1 If you weren’t an artist, what else would you be?
a not very good physicist
2 Name 3 of your least favourite artists.
I can’t knock anyone for doing their thing. If there is someone I don’t enjoy, I just don’t go to the gallery. However, in East London there are a few street artists that you unfortunately can’t avoid seeing.
3. Anytime, any place – which artist’s body would you most like to inhabit?
Koons
4 What is your favourite ‘ism’?
Materialism
5 What was the most intelligent thing that someone said or wrote about your work?
“I want to eat it”
6. And the dumbest?
“it’s too heavy ”
7 Which artists would you most like to rip off, sorry, I mean appropriate as a critique of originality and authorship?
Kapoor or Christo, bigger the better.
8 Do you care what your art costs? State your reasons!
Yes. I think the people who say no are being disingenuous. Cost is the fuel that powers art.
9 What are the three big ideas that you would like your work to express?
Playfulness, desire, transformation
10 Are you a political artist?
No
11 How do you start the process of making work?
Think of nothing. Then you’ll think of something
12 What next?
Then model it in your mind, imagine it in your hands, on a wall, on a website. Then work backwards and make the thing
13 If Moma and the Tate and the Pompidou wanted to acquire one of your works each, which would you want them to have?
It would be any of my first pieces, so all the people who bought early could feel exceptionally smug
14 Complete the following sentence “Blessed art the artists, for they shall……”
…always question themselves
15 Complete the following sentence “Blessed are the curators, for they shall…”
…always question the artist
16 Complete the following sentence “Blessed are the art critics, for they shall….”
…always question everyone but themselves
17. What is your favourite cheese?
a nice bit of Comté
18. What’s next for you?
a few months in L.A.
DSC (Death Spray Custom) Delight & Destroy at The Gallery Redchurch Street
