Sean Äaberg

THE GOBLIN NEWSLETTER 26

Added 2024-07-20 00:36:52 +0000 UTC

Evocation is a big part of my work. I catch a whiff of something I like & then I catalog it away. I had a moment back in Eugene when I realized that every piece of art I did was a spell making me a wizard. It was a simple way of looking at what I did differently that changed my intention & thinking about my work & myself exponentially. It let me understand that the works built up on each other. Certain things have given me very specific & great pleasures associated with aesthetic framing, timing, encouraging traits of independence, strength, courage, discipline & whatever seems to be lacking at any given moment in our society & I try my best to conjure up those feelings & pass them on. These things get mixed up & mixed together & injected with my general flavor & then with each other, shocked to life & then unleashed on the world, ready for today but thoroughly inspired by the past. Too much graverobbing & reanimation of the dead would make me a common necromancer, but I try to do a Frankenstein’s Monster approach by attaching different parts & then feeding them with my stylistic flavor mix of so many things blended together, I would require a whole encyclopedia to document them! The actual execution of the work is less important than the tremendous work that comes before. This is about having a really solid foundation to operate off of, so that I can experiment with the things that emerge from the foundation. It’s weird in this moment to have a rock solid foundation when so many people are actively trying to dismantle foundations & turn everything into a slurry. But, some things are eternally important, & a strong foundation is good forever.