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Daniel Chang / Costa Mesa, CA
Q: At what age did you start creating art?
A: As young as I can remember...but I think we all make art in our childhood, I just never stopped.
Q: Do you remember when you really felt like art was going to be part of your life forever?
A: "Making things" was and is a part of who I am so I can't really imagine that not being in my life, but the time when I started to consider art as a career was probably in high school. It was during that time when I began to wonder about the possibilities of what was ahead.
Q: What childhood interests or memories continue to influence you still today?
A: They all do at some time or another, especially when I'm just drawing with no real aim or goal but to just draw. In those moments things wiggle themselves free from my memory and work themselves out on the page.
Q: Tell us a little about your process, how do you find inspiration and how does that lead to the end result?
A: It's about being curious and taking the time to savor the things that you find interesting and filing them away for later use. I'll gather up mounds of ephemera and photos and let those things marinate. This becomes the creative base of a lot of work, either directly or indirectly.
Q: What motivates you to keep creating? Is it a desire to change the world or the way people think or more just a necessity, something that has to come out of you?
A: I've made things for commission and for myself. One is motivated by money, the other, for myself.
Q: When you were a child, besides an artist what did you dream of being or doing?
A: I was a cartoon junkie, and I didn't know what the term was as a child, but I wanted to be the maker of cartoons.
Q: If you couldn't do art what would you do?
A: chef
Q: What kind of things from your everyday life inspire what you do in your art?
A: The place of nature, the place of technology, and my struggle of what I want and need from both.
Q: How much of what you do is a statement, how much is a response and how much is just experimentation or exploration?
A: I have never looked to make statements but I do see my art as response, experimentation and exploration. There will be some mix of the 3 in differing proportions.
Q: Now that you are a father, are there any things that you would like to pass along to your children?
A: To be creative and to be curious.
Q: Are your children interested in art as well?
A: They love it. They love watching me paint and think that everything I make belongs to them.