Images courtesy of Sabeth (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sabeth718/) and Cake

This week we catch up with the wonder that is Cake.
Cake has been one of the most prolific street artists in her home town of Brooklyn.

 

How do you feel right now?

Wrapped up.

 

Why do you paint? 

Because it sustains me. 

 

What are you currently obsessed with? 

Anatomy

 

How/does your past career influence your work? 

I’m not one for careers.

 

Name one street artist you can’t get enough of and explain why. 

Miso from Australia because her work is beautiful.

 

How much thought goes into your work? 

Sometimes a lot, sometimes just enough to get something going. 

 

Is it spontaneous or considered?

Both

 

How would you define “street art?” 

Art that is made for the streets and installed in the streets. 

 

And how do you view it’s connection with ‘graffiti’ ?  

A (graffiti) writer broke my heart once.

 

What does it mean to sell-out? 

I don’t know.  People are too quick to label others as “sell out”.   Its possible that when someone calls someone else a sell out it means they want what they have.

 

What is authenticity? 

Honesty

 

What does it mean to keep it real? 

Means keep it honest.

 

Describe your process. 

It’s boring for others to hear but nice for me to experience.

 

Is there such a thing as ‘bad’ art? What is it? Name names.

Sure there is plenty of bad art to go around.  Never name names unless that’s your job.  Its not mine though. 

 

Do street artists make ethical choices in what they do, where they do it and how? 

Depends on the artist. 

 

Everything is about fear or desire. Which one interests you more?  

They both kind of suck. 

 

The last great piece of work you saw was what, by whom and how did it make you feel? 

A painting of a man in the center of a field of grass by Francis Bacon that I saw last Friday at the Met.   It made me feel like painting.

 

Can good art be political? Can political art be good? 

Yes to both but I’m not one for  discussing politics.

 

Who has got completely the wrong end of the stick recently?   

Any woman on “Bridezillas”.  

 

Where is it all going? 

Huh?

 

Where are you going? 

Back to Berlin

 

Is street-art a social activity? 

Can be.  But I like to do it alone, as with most things.

 

What albums are you listening to at the moment? 

I’m too embarrassed to say.

 

In a world without limits you would create… 

I gotta think more about this one..

 

How fucked are we on a scale of one to ten? 

Ten for sure but also not at all if you can see  and accept how fucked we are it brings it back down to one.

 

What can we do about it? 

Accept it/ Nothing.

 

The ancient Greeks reckoned that art and science should bridge the gap between nature and perfection. What do you reckon?

That the Greeks knew more about thinking about science, nature and perfection than I ever will.  But if you are a maker its best to always make things.