Bostin News - Black Magic with Fokawolf by Tim Brinkhurst

If something’s right in front of you you’re forced to look at it.

(Eight hundred and forty-one millimetres wide and it’s on a roll that can go to about five metres…)

If I go out there and keep putting fake posters around then hopefully it brings questions in people such as, if that’s fake what else around me could be fake? And if that has tricked me, what else in society has tricked me?

… Advertising is black magic.

I do think there is beauty in the city. It’s dirty and it’s grimy, but it’s got the remnants of people, their public spaces, and I like that. Somewhere that’s not a public space is clean and sanitised; I like to see wear and tear, where people have been, where people have touched stuff and the energy people leave behind.

I don’t really like when people argue about the work I produce. But when it creates an energy, people sharing it and it popping up in random places on the Internet, that to me is a success, when people send me links to places where it has been shared, I like that it comes back full circle, round to me. I think it’s a bit magic.

What is the agenda behind it (all)? It makes me feel like I’m going a bit mad…

(You can hypnotise people.)

Sometimes people will be at a low point in their life and they’ll be hit with something, like an advert, that will draw them in, a piece of art that will make them go out and buy the product. Advertising is black magic. Using art to trick people into buying shit.

People should go out and experiment and see how far they can push it.

Opposite traffic lights and on walls, I’ll pick (the spot) so that people have to spend a certain amount of time walking along and taking the information in. 

I like to bang ideas out as quick as I can and move on to the next one. Everything I do is instinctive. I don’t think about anything. Sometimes I regret it but I don’t regret regretting it.

(I’m interested in) fortune telling, where people can get drawn in by their misunderstanding of themselves.

It’s not an aggressive act. I’ll usually have picked the spot beforehand. There’s no specific time. Sometimes I’ll do it in the middle of the day with a hi-viz jacket on. Sometimes I’ll do it at night just because I probably had other things to do.

The only true belief you should have is your own reality. Even then you don’t know what way you’ve been pushed around. You think your views are your own but they could just have been planted there.

Primarily I’m an illustrator but, since having a baby, I haven’t got time to sit around and draw stuff. But I have got time to sit around and think of stuff.

I am a young person and I probably always will be…

Once you realise the news can be bought and sold you start to question all of it…

Now more than ever I’ve discovered just how much I love people and it doesn’t matter who they are or what they are, I love all of them. I want them near me and I want to be in a place with them. Chatting shit and sweating on me. When my daughter was born I realised that everyone at some point was a baby. Instead of looking at people and hating them before they spoke I went in the opposite way and ended up loving everybody. We are definitely all in this together.

Sound artist and producer Tim Brinkhurst has produced 5 sound pieces for Bostin News that speak of and share creativity.

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Sound - Tim Brinkhurst
Words & Images - Fokawolf