Mothfeast, your biggest web presence at the moment is your myspace musicians page, it also acts as a gallery for your art. How would you connect the style of your music to that of your visual art? Is there a theme that you can say runs through both of them?
M: There is a common theme between the music and the art, its fluid and spontaneous each time I record a song its all made up on the spot and almost every one of my songs are first takes, like the art, I don’t have a predetermined idea I just start sketching and let the ideas come to me from the lines of the Airbrush or pencil, both I think are coming from my third eye.
When and how did you first become interested in music?
M: I first became interested in music in Australia when I was 8 years old. I started listening to my sisters double live record by KISS, called KISS Comes Alive, songs like Strutter and Parasite, really shaped my taste and style in music. So I asked my mom for a guitar and started lessons in an old farm house in a desert outback area in New South Wales Australia.
What are your artistic influences?
M: My artistic influences would be Dark and Light, Love and Hate, The Occult, nature, shamanism, magic, artists like Alex Grey and H.R. Giger. I try to balance the art without knowing what it will look like in the end. I’ve always loved art, but when I saw Giger’s Necronomicon, that is when I wanted to buy an airbrush.
Can you tell me about your artistic process? Do you plan out your images before laying them out? What mediums do you use? M: My artistic process starts with the airbrush and an art board of some kind. I have different sizes, one canvas I found at a thrift store for 15 bucks is 6 feet wide and 5 1/2 feet high or smaller ones I do kind of doodle sketch with pencil until I see a shape that looks like something like a wing or a head of an eagle, et cetra…
I use Harder & Steinbeck airbrushes, I think they are awesome, great for detail, I have the Evolution and the Infinity. I use pigma .005 art pens to go over the pencil outlines then I color with highlighters and other markers.
A: オーストラリアの地で最初に音楽に興味をもったのは8歳のときで、姉が持っていた二枚組みのKISSを聞き始めたんです。KISS Comes Aliveとか、StrutterとかParasiteのような曲とかですね、それは全く私の好みとスタイルを決定づけてしまいましたね。それで母に頼んでギターをもらって、古い農家の家とか、オーストラリアのNew South Waleの誰も居ない砂漠の場所などで練習を始めたんです。