JoKa has a thing for meat. Slabs of flesh often turn up at his work... steaks and scantily clad woman. Powerfully weird, his work is like a disturbing, but aesthetically pleasing nightmare. He applies the paint with toothpicks, too. Yeah, toothpicks - those little tiny useless bits of wood that break all of the time. It must take flipping ages.
Other uses I have found for toothpicks are... dotting your T’s and crossing your I’s, poking people, and getting the gunk out from underneath your nails.
Before I begin a piece of art I always... mousercise!
If I wasn't allowed to make art any more I would probably... be a politician?
The hardest thing about being JoKa is... trying to overcome the realization that if I wasn’t so adamant about doing things my own way, they could probably get done a lot faster. (i.e. using a brush).
If my art were a sandwich it would be filled with ... just meat, and lots of it.
The most important thing about being an artist in 2008 is... hoping enough people will realize you're still around in 2009.
I love... the way food looks in cartoons. Everything is consumed in three bites pretty much.
If you like me, you'll hate... boring landscapes, people who call tits “boobs”, waiting at red lights, having to tie shoelaces, and people who don’t love bacon.
Check out JoKA's internet home here. And loads more pop Surrealism at Art Whino.
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Comments about this article
Come on. What is there to say? All we have to do is open our eyes and there is no more to say. Amazing. Amazing!
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Posted by anonymous @ 29/08/08 21:12:59