{"id":1136,"date":"2019-07-23T13:25:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T13:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2019-07-23T13:25:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T13:25:43","slug":"mancameron-personas-peculiar-lighting-printmaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/2019\/07\/23\/mancameron-personas-peculiar-lighting-printmaking\/","title":{"rendered":"mancameron: personas, peculiar lighting & printmaking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

mancameron’s\u00a0work varies from autobiographical (Twenty Two & Alone, collection of autobio comics\/poetry, self pubbed Mar 2018) to adult fantasy (Bad Magik, erotic fantasy, published on Slipshine 2018-current). He also has a variety of smaller projects, including scary stories, mini-zines, art zines, patches and enamel pins.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

STL SPEX (Rachel): What are your artistic influences?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I like to break this question up into two sections: Artists and Other Things. In the latter, I take a lot of influence from textural things- a pencil mark, wood grain, a barely inked screenprint pass. Ghost stories, peculiar lighting, and hidden away spaces also come up a lot in my work. Artists inspire me daily, and I wouldn’t be anywhere I am currently without my contemporaries and my close art friends (Olivia Stephens and Ryan Maniulit, love y’all)! To name a few super big influences: Sam Bosma, Anke Gladnik, Richie Pope, Lee Lai, & Molly Mendoza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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STL SPEX: Who do you create for?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve found that when I create for myself, I get a lot more responses. There’s something that happens when I dig inward that connects to a lot of people. But, to be more specific, I’m creating work for myself as a preteen- I’m just about to get hit hard by puberty, fears of being queer, losses of friendship- and I want to make work that Preteen Me could pick up and think, “Ok. I’m gonna be okay. I’m okay as I am, and as whoever I turn out to be.”
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STL SPEX: What are your favorite tools and how do you use them to create your art?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lately, I’ve been working to recreate my favorite tools and textures in a digital format. Scratchy pencils, rough edged brushes, the way watercolor paper takes something flat and gives it a personality. I also adore screenprinting and gouache paints, and need to get back in the habit of both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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STL SPEX: Your work encompasses many styles and genres – what do you find fun and\/or challenging about producing a diverse range of illustrations and designs? Do you have a favorite style or format – which one and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I honestly couldn’t imagine myself working exclusively in any one style- it’s way too fun to throw everything out the window and start a whole new process. I do admit that the work I make for printmaking is my favorite (the manual nature of it definitely speaks to some part of my soul), but I know my absolute best comes from when all of my disparate styles collide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Get it touch with mancameron: twitter –\u00a0@boycameron <\/a>instagram –\u00a0@mancameronwebsite –\u00a0http:\/\/mancameron.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"mancameron’s\u00a0work varies from autobiographical (Twenty Two & Alone, collection of autobio comics\/poetry, self pubbed Mar 2018) to adult…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1143,"href":"https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions\/1143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slicexpo.org\/stlspex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}