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How are you? Pretty nifty! How has art improved your life? Art is upgrading and downgrading my life—drastically and constantly. It keeps getting me into kooky sit-uations that force me to use some unusual problem solving skills. How do you feel about the world today? A little bird told me that the world will survive.
Who do you let the world see? A human. Who do you keep from being seen? A nervous humanoid. Who accepts you for you? My mothership.
What starts new work? I am always twiddling a lot of different things in my mind. Usual-ly I feel stoked about several ideas and whatnots—but only a few of them will end up working out. What finishes new work? A dead-line or boredom, though I have too many unfinished personal projects that keep combining and evolving into different kinds of nonsense.What do you see when you close your eyes? A distort-ed slide-show of my brain.
When was your first paid illustration job? When I was twelve, I made a poster for a recycling company about scrap metal. I bought a few frogs and an aquarium.When is love not enough? At the end of the world. When do you let loose? On special occasions—I like to create my own holidays...
Where is your heart? Somewhere over the rainbow. Where does your fear reside? Between life and near death experiences. Where do you care to be? A bit on the side, next to a window.
Why texture and shape?For feeling and meaning. Why color? For entertainment. Why life? To enjoy your short time.
How are you?Extremely hung over.How do you feel about religion?Ancient Aliens.How do you feel about politics?Generally unenthused and disgusted.
Who do you love?I enjoy loving lots of people.Who is infinite?No one.Who are you afraid of?Jesus.
What got you started? Sex and an amputation kept me going. What are you doing with your life? Trying to stay alive while constantly killing myself. What the fuck does it all mean? Who the fuck cares!?
When is a good time?All the time.When do you feel best about yourself?When I’m not thinking about myself.When is reali-ty really real?When forced to face the
rent.
Where are you?In a shanty hut studio, in a warehouse, in Bushwick. Where do you fit in?Not many places—I get kicked out of most.Where do you find happiness?In knowing there’s an end.
Why are we here?To destroy.Why is so much kept from so many?Because humans are evil.Why paint?Because I can’t sing.
How are you? I’m doing well.How is Connecticut? Not bad.How do you start your day? With a never-ending to-do list. Who is it you care to talk to most? My girl, family and Nouveau Classique.Who challenges you most in life? Myself. I try to be my own challenger—there’s always more to learn.Who was the last person that truly offended you? I don’t know, maybe someone from a college fight or something. I’m pretty easy going—don’t have time for conflict.What do you think of your music? Nothing else like it, which can be a blessing or a curse, depending on the day.What do you feel others think of your music? The jury’s still out. What are you planning for ‘13? To make people see what they’ve been missing.
When does that spark of creativity occur for you? It’s unpredictable—my mind’s always going. It’s just having the time and means to put ideas to paper, to a track or to the screen.When is the right time? Never and always.When are you going to take over? I really really want to take over right this sec-ond—but life doesn’t really go according to my timeline, so I’ll just have to keep working and let life take its course.Where do you see your music heading? I try not to think about it. Where are you outstanding? I don’t think I’m outstanding at any one thing—I have ideas and I do my best to execute them. Where does your success lie? I’ve learned a lot about human nature this past year—my own and the others that I’ve worked with.Why the name Voli? Short for Volatile, my old rap name. Why do it all? The alternative would be too depressing... I have too much to share to quit.Why music? I love it, plain and simple.
How are you?Bien!How would you describe your work?Geometrical street art with pure wool and nails done in the streets.How did you get going?Looking for new things to do in the street—experimentation.
Who has got your back?Friends and lovers.Who gives you a hard time?The heroes of the day.Who shows you a good time?The photo camera.
What is your creative process?Searching for the right place—that’s the most complicated part of the job. I really need special places. What are you aiming to accomplish?Express my ideas and develop new things. What underlying concepts are conveyed?Freedom of art. Art of freedom.
When does it go down?When you don´t work. When you don´t experiment. When are you at your best?This year was tremendous. Next year should be bet-ter...When are you at your worst?[blank]
Where do you find spots?In the abandoned places.Where does math come into play?Everywhere.Where have you found peace?From the Alps to the abandoned cities of Spain.
Why do you care so much?It´s everything I am.Why are you, you?Cause I do crazy geometrical street art with pure wool and nails over abandoned surfaces that’s 111% illegal.Why wool bombing?Cause I don´t like yarn bombing.
How are you?Everything is ok.How is Moscow?Moscow is great—and as always, a lot of snow and a very cold winter.How come you agreed to this feature?I thought it was a nice idea,
so I agreed.
Who are you?I’m a guy who makes a lot of different stuff.Who is this for?First of all, for myself—but I think my work is for all. I don’t make work for some specific group of people. I think everyone can find something for themself.Who influences you?There is no one specific person. A lot of my influences come from the Russian avant-garde.
What do you do?I show my life, situations and everything I see around me in my work. What is your background in art?Graffiti and cubism. What does you artwork say for you?Everything and nothing.
When did you start?I started many many years ago as a graffiti artist.When do you create?Every day.When does your artwork work?When my work harmoniously fits into space.
Where has your artwork taken you?I like to think of the situations that could be...Where are you in your mind while creating?Difficult to say—each work takes me to different corners of my mind—and that depends on many factors and situations. Where would you like to go with your artwork?It will be great to see some new places and galleries.
Why do you create?It always comes from inside. I’ve always wanted to show everything that is in me my own way.Why excep-tional use of space?Because the work becomes a part of that space—and if I use all the space the viewer will concentrate only on my work. My work with space works together.Why mixed media?Because it is easy to find materials, you don’t need to spend a lot of money and they always provide a very full range of textures. I mix them with simple shapes and colors.
How are you?Living it, loving it.How is Auckland?Auckland is just fantastic—very multicultural and modern.How did you get started with CGI?I got my start at Globo TV. Then I started working at Platinum as a Junior Retoucher.
Who led you in that direction?I’m an illustrator that just saw 3D as another cool media to work with—the possibilities are endless!Who pushes you to become better?Technically speaking, the CG community—there’s so many talented guys out there.Who is your biggest enemy?I’ve got none at the moment…
What did you want to be as a child?I really had no idea—but I always liked to draw, explore, assemble things and play video games. So it had to be something creative.What do you do for a living?I’m currently a CGI Artist at Lightfarm Studios.What inspired you to film your creative process?The question: “What do you do for a living?”
When is your work planned?All the time—I’m always thinking about my
next job.When is your work freestyled?
When I sketch.When do you feel your best?
At the very end when you see all the effort coming back—it’s really cool.
Where are we in the universe?The universe is inside us—we’re all connected the same wayneurons in our brains are.Where do you see CGI headed in the future?It’s gonna get way more popular.Where is technology beneficial to mankind?Every-where—technology is improve-ment and improve-ment is good.
Why choose happiness?Cuz there’s no other way to go. Why space?Cuz it’s out of the box.Why CGI?CGI is my favorite media at the moment, but its still just media—the thing that feeds it all is thought.
How are you?I’m good bro—basting in this Chicago music scene.How is Chicago?Chicago is home.How has your life changed in the last year?The money’s getting better, but I definitely haven’t changed. Who loves you for your success?Real Chicago hip-hop heads.Who hates you for your success?I don’t believe in haters. Who has been there from the beginning?The homie and co-d, Tone Skeeta. What do you want to say most through your music?I want the listener to feel my point of view. What separates you from your competition?I don’t have any competition. What is your motivation towards new material?Out doing my latest material always helps—but more importantly, my motivation is to do more me.
When did you decide that music was what you wanted to do with your life?When I walked off my old job.When did you start making money from music?Over the last six months is when I started checking a check. When money is involved, does it change your music?Naw, I have material on top of material.Where does your support come from?Internet bloggers and real music enthusiasts—most of my fans come from word of mouth.Where would you like to improve?I’d like to improve all-around and on the business side of things. Where do you see yourself five years down the road?I see me having my own label and really pushing Chicago music to the forefront.Why the name Tree?My real name is Tremaine, so it’s an abbrevi-ation of my name. “Tree” was given to me as a toddler by my grandparents—it kinda stuck.Why #Soultrap?I didn’t mean to create a genre—it just happened. It’s a fusion of soul samples and southern drum kits.Why music?It was one of the few things I was great at.
