enpen: Which technique/trick do you find yourself using the most in your art (e.g. horizon line, cross-hatch, etc.)?

Matthew: If I were to tell you the most useful trick in my arsenal, it would no longer by a trick. Therefore destroying the entire experience of visual art for the viewer...

As an artist, what about red is important to your work?

As a viewer, what about red is important to you?



Had you all the time and resources in the world, what story/history would you put into visual form and how would you do it?

The only one I know.

Grasping at straws is like submarines with a couple screen doors.

If 1+1=3 then I really don't know, I was never all that good at arithmetic.

It's the water and I know how to use it.

Matthew’s work is at Metro Body Piercing (214 4th Ave E) during Artswalk weekend (April 25th & 26th).

enpen: Sometimes when I look at your photography I feel like I'm in the middle of such dense vegetation that I'm surprised I can't hear any bird and animal noises and sometimes they make me feel like my eyes must be playing tricks on me. What do you think about as you're in the process of creating one?

Jeremy Kraft: My pieces can be very thick and at times overwhelming. I include spatial cues that are intended to disrupt an overall sense of coherent space, yet come together to work as a unified whole. This can be contradictory to a typical state of visual awareness, hence the tricks.

In an age where it seems as if everybody has a camera, why do you choose to use that medium to work abstract images?