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Taboos are always going to be interesting.Our with Michael Dumontier style has its range and there is room for explicitness in violence, but not at the expense of our classy, highbrow image.
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I love Inuit art, and most anything you would find in a folk art museum, as well as children's art or children's book illustrators or illustrators in general - all the kinds of work that my paintings would draw comparisons to.
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I loved surrealism and abstract painting, and anything related to those. I always thought painting was the highest form of art. What led me to drawing was seeing so much self-important, pretentious, conceptual-type art in university. I wanted to reject that by making quick, fun art.
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I had so many ideas that I wanted to get out at once that it led to simple little drawings and paintings.
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I don't teach. I don't think I could. I also don't really do anything else artistically, locally.
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I'm always happy when I see something written on an album that wasn't just typed on a computer.
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Each painting is its own world, but a lot of times I do see the paintings as one page from a story. You can imagine what has happened before or after. Sometimes they are worded as being a part of a story, especially the paintings where characters are in conversation.
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I think the overall mood of the music informs the artwork, but I've found that good lyrics can be inspirational, too.