J3CONCEPTS
Jared Nickerson a.k.a J3concepts lives in Seattle, collects vinyl toys, spends a fortune on Lego, works for clients like MTV, Nike, Mad Decent and Nintendo out of his living room with a puppy Apollonia, listens to quite an eclectic selection of music, and is generally doing good. He doesn’t think his art will save the world, he just likes to draw apples with vampire fangs and cute milk cartons with bloody knives.
interview by Katya Guseva
Do you take yourself seriously?
I always try hard not to take myself too seriously when it comes to my art. I like to repeat that artists are not gods; they will not save the world. People idolize artists and designers; but essentially we draw stuff with a pencil or with a mouse, we are not saving lives! I think it’s kinda funny, how some artists have a fan base, they start having this following and they turn into this hot shit. I try not to become like that.
Is there anything special you have to do before you start a new project?
I always set up a playlist, I start with music that inspires me. I don’t just listen to one album of one artist, I listen to a lot of singles form different artists. Different elements of different sounds inspire a lot of different things in my artwork.
What have you been listening to lately?
The Juan Maclean, A Mountain of One, Beyond the Wizard’s Sleeve, Air, Daft Punk (Homework), Dead Man’s Bones, The Knife and/or Fever Ray, Metronomy, Retro/Grade, Serge Santiago, Sally Shapiro, Unkle.
