Important bit from the interview that I liked:
"I relate Steinberg’s influence to genetically modified food. Or when you talk about pesticides; a pig eats corn with pesticides and then when you eat bacon those pesticides become part of your cellular structure. I don’t think I exist in a vacuum; the way I have grown up and the things that I am into have curated any influence that I in turn may have.
I like Werner Herzog movies, I like skateboarding, I like David Hockney, but I don’t travel across the world to see a Hockney show. The world is like software – you don’t need to read the instruction manual, you don’t need to be versed, we are all literate in our own world. There was a time years ago when I was trying to be cool. Like, ‘I’m gonna look at hand drawn type in the 1970s,’ and I’d put that in my work like a quotation. Then I thought, ‘How can I look inward and force people to understand me in my own world.’ So that’s what my work is. It’s not in a vacuum – it’s like looking into a bubble.
...I’m not a deep digger. I like to absorb culture in a very go-to-the-movies sort of way. Like, I love Fugazi but there are Fugazi records that I don’t know. I like to come across things naturally. If I’m drawing a horse I don’t like to look at a horse; I just draw a horse the way I remember the horse. It’s more like invention. It’s the same for me with Steinberg or any artist – I don’t look super deep into their work. I mean, I’ve read his biography, but I see it as, ‘This is my impression of him.’ I don’t want to be the person that knows all of those connections." - Geoff Mcfetridge
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