"I don't entirely believe that there's a single state of finished. It's usually more of a series of waves peaking,"
"If the tension of striving after perfection is a sort of holding of your breath, then it's important to include a loose moment of exhale-a shaky pattern, a splatter of drips, something that my initial instinct wants to write off as lazy. It's important to me not to push things so far that they are infallible because they never could be, it's a sort of therapy to an anxious brain that wants to control everything."
Koak begins with digital color studies and uses non-photo blue so prints can be drawn over and rescanned, a technique rooted in comics training. The iterative process privileges revisions and intentional imperfections such as shaky patterns and drips to counter an anxious desire for perfection. Recent work examines control through unsettling imagery: a foregrounded female figure with hair being combed by a dark, anonymous presence, a stark ruby and sapphire palette, and ambiguity about whether a hand belongs to the figure or an external agent. Limbs are playfully distorted, appearing immense and weightless, complicating agency and objectification.
Read at Hi-Fructose Magazine - The New Contemporary Art Magazine
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