POP! Saturday Mash

Me

Don't need remember who I was

To be now who I am

Don't need to know now who I am

To soon become who I shall be

Don't need to think for me to think

Don't have to breathe for me to breathe

I let a body be itself

Because a body isn't me

Greetings Racc, it's a pleasure to have you on my realm. Would you like to introduce yourself to the audience who may not familiar with you yet?

Racc:  Hi, thank you very much. It's wonderful that you interview artists. I appreciate the invitation, and sure. I post some of my pencil and ink drawings on the internet, beginning in January of 2024. I like sealife and spicy food.

Pencil and Ink. These materials shaped your style and created beautiful waves of illustrations. Partially intricate, yet simply meaningful drawings. What formed your vision?

Racc: I draw mainly traditionally because it feels more personal than digital art, to me at least. Especially in an age where we have AI art, and digital images can come from anywhere. A paper drawing comes straight from your fingers onto a physical thing that you can give to someone; I like that about it. Maybe it's just nostalgia. Sort of like trading cards.

I examined your poems within a perspective of a beholder who personalized. To tell you the truth, your writings absorbed me. When did you realize you were in need of writing your feelings and closer to yourself?

Racc: Thanks for reading my poems. Not all of them are very good, I'm not a master at writing. But I make them for fun. It's true, I really do find poetry as a great way to let feelings and honest perspectives take shape.

When you make things rhyme, they feel more wistful, and you can communicate little thoughts that you wouldn't normally say bluntly. I started writing poems as a habit after I quit a job around December.

Where art stands in the context of your well-being?

Racc: Artwork feels like a challenge between your conscious and your intuition. The goal is to dive within yourself to pull abstract thoughts into the physical world. It's a game that can never be beaten, so I'm addicted to it, I think. It helps with my OCD. Drawing feels like something separate from life, to me.

What life brings to you when you are not ready to respond?

Racc: I'm not sure... Lemons? I'm never ready to respond. Sometimes I don't respond. Usually, I don't respond.

If you had an option to erase all of your memories, would you enter the yes button?

Racc: My memory is not very good as it is. I don't think I would, I'd forget the lyrics to all my favorite songs. Then again, I'd get to hear them for the first time again.

What influences you?

Racc: 

Visual artists: Kazuma Kaneko. Bernie Wrightson. Bengus. Masahiro Ito. Bladee.

I will try to be descriptive but my memory is not always very reliable.

Musical artists: I like Flume right now. I like SOPHIE too. That sort of stuff.

Videogames: Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. SEKIRO: Shadows Die Twice. Darkstalkers.

Cinema: I like FLCL. I like Finding Nemo.

Other: I like Yu-Gi-Oh. Especially the older cards.

Closing words please…

Racc: Thank you for interviewing me. It makes me want to keep drawing. I wish you good health and well-being. I could have said something more interesting, but I'm a little too tired. Oh, well...

credits

Official IG page of Racc, tap racc4644n

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