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voightkampffmagazine:

Artist and founder of http://www.ekosystem.org/ Eko, speaks to Voight Kampff Magazine about his inspirations and erotic feelings towards everyone’s favourite replicants

Name: Eko

Current City: Deadtown in the south-west of France

What would you say are the main influences on your work or style? Where do you draw inspiration from? My inspiration comes from many sources from different art fields. If you always borrow things from the same sources you are just a copycat. If you borrow from many different sources you can make something personal and step by step you create you own visual language.

Some inspirations from my teen years: Bordeaux Graffiti scene from the 90’s, Atari & Amiga demo scene ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene ), House & techno sleeves. But also from logos, children’s Book illustrators, De Stijl, suprematism, futurism, minimalism & sexism :o)

What are your preferred methods of production and what materials do you like to use? I usually experiment with shapes and colours on Adobe Illustrator, reproduce my sketch on graph paper, and I finally paint it on a wall with spraycans, I use tapes from lines and a pencil + a string for circles. Material is not really important I could paint with Posca or brushes. What is extremely important to me is to paint alone in a quiet place. This is one of the reason I like abandoned places. Painting is almost the only moment where I’m alone; I usually don’t want to share that moment. I don’t invade places and I’m not looking for maximal attention. I usually paint in places where not many people go. The atmosphere of the place, the textures of the walls are of course important. I like to be in a quiet place, where the only noises I can hear are mine and when it’s not full of piss & foul odour it’s even better.

Soundtrack to your life right now? I used to listen to a lot of music, now I must admit that, just like Depeche Mode, I enjoy the silence very much.

Favourite film? In reference to the Voight-Kampff site, I’m proud to say that my father brought me to a theatre for this movie when I was 9. I loved the flying cars, the music…A few years later I watched the movie countless times on a VCR. The replicants were highly erotic, Rachel, of course, but also Zhora and the athletic blond guy. All my favourite movies are pretty erotic in a way, Mulholland drive, In the mood for love…

Tell me about http://www.ekosystem.org/ I started ekosystem.org in 1998, because there was no website about the graffiti I liked. It was a way to promote talented graffiti & street-artists that had not much recognition. What is shown on the site has only been called “street-art” or “post-graffiti” a few years after the ekosystem birth. My goal is still to show graffiti I like, no matter what country or how famous the artist is. I try to show what I think is original, interesting or exciting. It can be a naive character from a 13 years old kid, or a more conceptual installation from an art-student.

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