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THE CRACK BEING BORED IS A GOOD THING

My far-flung ideas – that I’ve conjured up on a whim and pursued until the ends of the Earth – have given me some of my greatest joys as a visual artist. These ideas give me the motivation to try to stand out in an industry bombarded – by the onslaught of social media and pretty images that lack story and imagination. The insane volume and velocity of this content being created propels us into the weird concept that we must be creating something new all the fucking time. But we don't.

I think that great images are few and far between. When I embark on a passion project, I want to

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