![]() ![]() This exhibit is so different from the usually pop culture gallery shows where there might be a theme but to see so many pieces that look similar, you've achieved what you want to. I just want to keep trying new stuff and new media. I've got a bunch of other ideas and doing something like this where you're given a space to transform, is totally new. So I thought 'Oh I can do a whole gallery show like this.' You've just got to keep it different. I remember I did this sort of stupid, Penguin video game book cover for T he Sims and it had a big wall of these things and I've always really liked the aesthetic. ![]() ![]() I've used Victorian silhouettes in my work a lot before. With this stuff I just wanted to do something different. The thing I did with the Star Wars posters and Evil Dead poster is like try and take the concept that people really liked about the more minimalist stuff and make it more illustrative and complicated and sort of excessive and striking. How do you keep yourself fresh and innovative? Now, so many people online are doing the minimalist thing that's its kind of become a joke. We know about your t-shirts but art wise you got started with the Locke print, a Saul Bass inspired minimalist thing. That the love of it is obvious and people don't see it as transparent to sell pieces. I'm just such a massive fan of this stuff and I really hope that comes through in the art itself. And I know sometimes I get people accusing me of doing popular art just to sell but it's not that at all. I have no interest in doing anything else. Was it just because you're such of fan of that that you choose this route as opposed to a more traditional kind of art? Absolutely. I know myself, the people outside and the people who read our site got into it because you're doing art about the stuff we love. I hope that kind of shows thought my art and I hope people connect with that. I'm just such a big fan of the themes that I work with. And it's fine, like I understand that these people, a lot of them, are obviously interested in stuff that I do, but are really interested in just the kind of themes that I work with more than that. You've become so popular so fast, what's it been like to have this happen, to have people wait 24 hours just to see some of your art? It's totally bizarre to me, but also really cool that people care enough about the stuff that I do. I almost kept the Grim Fandango, Bill Murray and a couple others but I just thought if I don't have to give them away then I don't feel right charging people. Well I felt it would be cheesy to make doubles for myself. That's so cool that you're keeping some of your own pieces. All the Replicants I guess, unless he's a Replicant, who knows? That's my favorite movie so I'm keeping the owl and Replicants. The ones I'm keeping for myself, I'm keeping all the Blade Runner pieces except Dekkard. What are some of your favorite pieces in the show? My favorite piece is Bill Murray. Kind of like the joy of recognizing something that you connect with. ![]() The thing with it was, I would like to do previews but obviously if I showed one piece it would have totally given the whole thing away and I wanted people to come in and be surprised and have that fun of going around and spotting the characters that they like, because some of them are hard to get and that's why we kind of did the quotes and tried to not make them too obvious. So it's probably about 5, 6 months ago, maybe, so it's been a long time in the works.Īnd why did you decide to be so secretive about it? People who've been outside for 24 hours have no idea what to expect when the door opens. I thought there's totally a whole show in this idea so I'd do that. There's so many things I can do with it and kind of set all the expectations, twist them, like I did with the Where's Waldo and Die Hard with the broken glass and stuff. And I started drawing them and I thought this is enough for a whole show. Film: How did you come up with the idea for this show? Moss: When I was first coming up with ideas for the show I had about six different ideas and I looked at them all and I thought, well, to start I was going to do about 60 of these and a bunch of other stuff. Mouse over each for the title of the piece because they're almost as surprising as the art. Each piece was drawn, then laser cut, mounted and framed. First up, here's a SMALL sampling of the art Moss did in the show as well as some process shots. ![]()
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