“My work is a journey into the bits and pieces of my memories. I am working with the methodic of chance, which means, I let things happen without trying to get any meaning into them. I neither know in advance what it is meant to look like nor during the process what I am aiming at and what to do about getting there.” Jaybo Monk who has been indispensable for IWISHUSUN’s formation has dedicated his work and origination process to spontaneity, to the single moment itself that will define the eventual outcome. What seems to start as a sequence of coincidences turns out to a coherent piece. If you are in Los Angeles, you can check out the latest outcomes of his artistic method: Soze Gallery currently presents a new series of Jaybo Monk’s paper works, called “Paper Tears.”
Jaybo continues: “Drawing is a blind, beautiful and desperate effort to be surrounded by the incomprehensible In this particular pieces, I try to keep influence playing with me during a travel to Portugal to see how it will affect the work. I started all pieces in Berlin, let them evolve in Portugal, than finishing them in Berlin. Some of the title has been selected before the drawings, some after.”
See more of Jaybo’s paper works here.
Jaybo Monk: ”Paper Tears”, 10 August – 10 September 2013, Soze Gallery, Los Angeles.
Photos: Soze Gallery.
