MR: I try to get here early, and, depending on how many lines of coke I’ve
done and how many women I have splayed, whether I got butt-fucked by a huge
black guy at an orgy, I get in, like, by 10:30. I respond to email, talk to
people if they’re here (we have a 6,000-square-foot place, four of us, with
three rentals). Then I start cutting up MDF and gluing it into stacks that
eventually I grind into the final shapes. I do a lot of finishing right now
to make everything look nice and smooth and uncraftlike meaning that if it
were a painting you wouldn’t see any brushstrokes. I do this by sanding
everything a million times. Then I paint things by stippling them. But you
wouldn’t see me painting something and cutting it on the band saw at the
same time. All of the work starts from drawings, which I don’t do here. I
pretty much just fabricate here and look at celebrity candid photo sites and
raymitheminx.com. It’s not too romantic, although it is kind of old-school,
like making religious sculptures in the Renaissance.
The rest of the interview:
http://www.believermag.com/issues/200512/?read=interview_ronay
