Interview With... Paulette Jo

Interview with PAULETTE JO

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ÂŤI have a deeply connection with the people I drawÂť

Paulette Jo is a young mexican illustrator who invite us to discover her unique world. A sad but beautiful world who can be between Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland

Most of the people when they do interview focus on the artist not in the human who is replying so I would like to know more about you not as artist but human being.

I remember when I saw one of your work for the very first time and when i look at your most recent work, I can see a big change.

What happened to you?

That is correct, the children I used to draw somehow matured, to put it bluntly I made them mature. I have a deeply connection with the people I draw, they portrait my feelings and what I have learned from observing my surroundings since I was a child. One day a user from Tumblr anonymously left an inbox complaining about how repetitive my work was, I was deeply hurt by this statement and I went to complete art-block for quite some time. I thought about it over and over again until I decided it was time for me to start from anew, I have attended live drawing classes for a short time back then, and the “ new ideas� eventually came up on their own. I think I as well, matured myself in the process as my drawings did.

Are you just like boys and girls you draw?

You could say that in a way, but not physically of course. One can help but draw one’s life experiences or one’s thoughts of certain topics. My work portrait; at least I try to portrait, the state when we are trapped in an endless labyrinth with a sign of exit but refuse to get out of it, our subconscious. That is, in a way, what I am.

Does your childhood have an impact in your work, I’m saying that because most of your character are « young ».

It does. I was born and raised in a well family, but like any other child when through incredible, unpleasant and sometimes painful experiences.

In my opinion, those experiences are the most significant for each one because they determine the kind of adults we will be. I am not interested in drawing the outcome but the course or the problems we faced; it has a deeper meaning to me because those are the things that turn me into who I am right now (I’m a highly self conscious person), and how I developed this alter ego called Paulette Jo.

What inspire you?

Mostly manga, I grew up reading it and watching animation, I still enjoy it. What inspires me is the movement called Low- Brow but what really influence my work and me are Haruki Murakami’s novels.

How do you consider your own artistic world?

I think it is a mix between reality and dreams-nightmares like. I like to distort the beauty and put it in a melancholic state, an imperfect being.

How could you define the Mexican art scene, is there some artist we should know?

I have talked this with some Mexican artist and illustrators friends, and this is my own opinion (I am not an intellectual person either): is a combination between old and modern movements from all over the world some use what our predecessors left behind some others (like myself) won’t use it at all. Mexican artist I like; my good friends Siamés Escalante and René Tapia, illustrator Raúl Urias, kikyz1313 who I deeply admire. I recently met the collage work of Ismael Fino, really cool work

I know you still young but I would like to know how you imagine your future if you can’t maybe let’s focus on 2014 and 2015.

I did have plans but I ended up changing them. At this point, I am not so sure about it anymore but I do want to save up money as much as I can to devote myself, in the future, to paint only and develop my abilities as an artist because that is what I truly love and I want to do for the rest of my life!

PAULETTE JO https://www.behance.net/atelierarteydiseno http://paulettejosatelier.tumblr.com https://www.facebook.com/paulettejoart