Keba: Where
are you from?
WL: I was born in San
Jose, CA and grew up all around the bay area until I moved to Sacramento when I was 13. I also lived in Iceland with my mother for a short time.
K: When did you know that you wanted to be an
artist?
WL: I figured out I
loved art when I was in cooking school and I was spending all my spare time
doing art and found that my favorite parts of cooking were the artistic sides
using colors smells and constructions to make food beautiful.
K: Does music help you when you're drawing?
WL: Usually I have no
music on but sometimes I listen to books on tape and draw.
K: What kinds of things inspire your work?
WL: I'm inspired by
strong visions and daydreaming of stories and scenarios.
K: I notice that you have words to accompany
some of the blockprints on your website. Do you draw based off of the writing
or write after you have drawn...or both?
WL: I wrote first but
sometimes its the opposite.
K: Besides art....do you do anything else that
is creative?
WL: I write and play
music. I am a make up artist. I direct music videos
and I dance like a maniac.
K: Who are some artists that you look up to?
WL: I like my friend
Kyle Ranson the most, but Keegan Mchargue and Devendra
Banhart and Chris Johanson, Matt Worth,
amazing friend, Daft Arts Productions, Bryce Kass, Tony Stone, M Blash, Animal Collective, Brian Degraw and Gang Gang Dance.
K: What are your least favorite mediums to
work with?
WL: No least favorite, no favorite, just the most or least appropriate for the job.
K: What mediums would you enjoy experimenting
with?
WL: Welding, choreography, deep sea film making, juggling, large format holographic projection
and very large origami.
K: How did you get into body painting?
WL: Got into it
through playing live music. I would paint myself and my bandmates then I
got offered some jobs from that.
K: would you ever consider taking up
tattooing?
WL: I don't have any
tattoos but I have designed some before.
