Do you
think you will make any new series in addition to updating your old ones?
I’d like to think I will, but oftentimes when I create
something even I don’t have a clear idea of where it
will go. Burst Helvetica is one example of this. At first no one seemed
to understand what I was going for and, to be honest, I hadn’t thought that deeply about it when I made it.
But I was later able to systemize it, and then even came to realize that this
system could be used to present foreign languages, accents, and other forms of communication
that sound like noise in a way that stirs emotion. I already had the original
draft of my Black series that appeared on the cover of +81 Vol. 83 finished back in 2008, and
when I initially showed it at a friend’s group
exhibition the reaction was pretty middling. But then over a decade later I was
able to restart it thanks to things like being contacted by the Toulouse
National Theater in France about using a piece of this
series, as well as a proposal from and collaboration with the publisher Goliga. So there’ve been more than a few instances where I’ve
had projects come alive again some time later down the road.