Inside the mind of Julie Jarret

T-When i look at your work i think post apocalyptic landscapes or skeletons of structures... where does you inspiration come from?

J- Some artists and ideas that really interest me come from some of the Dadaist works that inspire and embrace chance maneuvers and manipulations within the work. Hans Arp's Rectangles Arranged According to the Laws of Chance has a real impact on these digital drawings, in that I simply make the marks (as Arp made the pieces) and the computer makes the connections and scribbles that invent the marks (as chance and placement were determined by falling pieces for Arp). Another work that inspires these works directly is William Anastasi's Subway Drawings. In his subway drawings a pencil is held to the paper loosely. As Anastasi rides the subway the shifting of the car and bumps make marks onto the paper. As Anastasi is the hand, the train is really the drawing machine, and he is the mediator. I like to think of myself as the mediator between the machine (computer program) and the drawing. It's like it really is the computer's drawing, I just execute it.


T-What's the thought process involved when you get inspired to do your work?

J- The thought process isn't really decided by me. As someone untrained once said "What were you thinking when you did these?" The simple answer is that I wasn't. It's not my thinking and decisions that compose the work, it's really the program. Though programs can only do what we tell them to do.

T-I see that a lot of your forms are structural but abstract, would you ever try to more representational pieces ? perhaps using those webbed like structures but in more recognizable forms?

J- The structure is really made by a series of no more than 7 straight lines that I put down, intersecting at various points. The program I use then defines the lines that it uses to connect the lines, based on algorithms. The pieces are representational in a way that you can make out forms and space within them. You see a web of structures, and that is right about the line of as representational as I care to be.


T- what are your hopes for this semester? what kind of evolution to do you expect have in your work this semester?

J- My work will get printed. I will try to work on the ideas discussed to refine the message, and to expand upon the ideas presented already.