TWENTY : TWENTY with Ashes57

Tell everyone a little bit about yourself...

I am a Graphic Artist heavily addicted to bass music. I do line drawing illustrations, photography and paintings. I am a busy bee, I am getting involved in various different projects in the music industry. I have recently done artwork for Swamp81, the Wu Tang Clan and the Deep Medi website. I also work with Obey, currently documenting Shepard Fairey's work photographically. I have recently started curating shows with my friend Paddy Walsh under the LAVA Collective.

Favourite 3 albums of all time?

This is pretty hard to make up my mind because a lot of albums have influenced me for various reasons. But I would have to put the 36 Chambers first, I remember scoring the cd and listening it on my way to school and feeling a million bucks. Second would be the Third Eye Vision - Hieroglyphics, I loved it. And the third is Burial - Burial just a masterpiece.

iPhone or Blackberry?

iPhone.

Top 3 blogs?

Art : Fecalface
For design: Behance
My blog: Cool eh Mag

Meat or veg?
Veg most def.

So, we do kicks. Kicks is what we do. What were your first pair?

The first pair of kicks that I remember buying was on my 13th birthday. It was a pair of high top Adidas, black with white stripes.

With that in mind, (or maybe not!), who’s your style icon?

MIA

OK, turning to work… you have a chance to work with anyone you want, who? Why?

I would love to work with Michel Gondry on a stop motion movie. My illustrations with his skills would be awesome.

Where do you find inspiration?

I find my inspiration in music and in people.

Now from work, to play: where can we find you in the summer time?

I love going snowboarding during the summer. I usually go shoot videos in Mount Hood, Oregon for a few weeks. If not, I love going to parks or festivals.

Actually let’s better that, if you had to go and live in another country FOREVER, where would you fly & why?

I would choose New york. I used to live there and I feel like it was a perfect fit to my lifestyle.

Can you speak any languages to get by?

Just French but that is my first language.

If you were stuck there, you couldn’t leave – what song would keep you going nuts?

I would take a track from the Black Lips, I Saw A Ghost (Lean) from GOOD BAD NOT EVIL, it gives me energy, reminds me of my time lurking through New York City...but really I would take return to space by MALA.

Err, what kind of nuts?

Hazelnuts

And you’re still there, still stuck in the perfect abyss - what could you just not live without?

I could not live without the internet, my camera, my black markers and my notepad.

OK, you’re out of solitary confinement, let’s have some fun - what's the first thing you notice on a bloke?

One of the first thing I check on a man is his shoes. The style of the shoes can tell a lot about somebody at the first glance.

And on fellow girls, what do you check out?

.....

Everyone’s got someone right – so who’s the person you find hot but you really shouldn't?
Ahahahah I really can't drop a name there.

OK, work done, play is over. That was quick. Finishing up, mature hats at the ready – looking back, if you could give a younger version of yourself advice, what would it be?

I don't regret the path I took.

So finally, you may have already achieved a lot, you may have plenty more dreams to fulfill… but years down the line – how do you want your epitaph to read?

Ashes to Dust

Check out Ashes on her site.

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